{"title":"Factors Predicting Singers’ Work Efficiency and Singers’ Singing Peak","authors":"Xuejie Huang, Mei Foong Ang","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2024-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2024-0004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The research focusses on understanding the controls and predicting singers’ work efficiency, which is measured by rework times (RwT) in the recording studios. We conducted a comprehensive literature synthesis to identify a set of nine critical factors combining advancements in both acoustic field and recording practice. We measured each of these potential variables while 10 individual singers performed the same original song independently. The pieces of music sentences (n = 380) were analyzed by the multiple linear regression method. We found that: 1. In the recording process, the RwT of a singer are predicted mainly by intensity, singing duration (SinD) and rhythm consistency. 2. SinD mediates the connection between intensity and RwT. 3. A singing peak exists in the performance.","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"31 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140363354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labour Markets and How We Will Win Them Back","authors":"Guy Morrow","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2024-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2024-0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"119 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140379190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem","authors":"Guy Morrow","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2024-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2024-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140378197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nashville: The Creative Business Cluster and its Life Cycle","authors":"Dan Hodges","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Nashville, Tennessee, otherwise known as Music City, exhibits the characteristics of what has been called a creative business cluster that is centred around the business of country music. The presence of major record labels in the city devoted to the genre of music has created career opportunities for various types of music professionals as well as a community where there is a sense of camaraderie and cooperation among competitors. The community's success has bolstered the local economy due to the successes of the genre of music as well as the tourism country music has brought to the city. Business clusters have been shown to have life cycles that include the emerging phase, growing phase, sustaining stage and declining phase. This study utilises research from the literature on business clusters and their life cycles, along with the literature gained from the interviews of workers within the market, to determine where Music City currently lies along its creative cluster life cycle.","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"0 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129163172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustaining Innovation: Digital Live Music Models in a Post-COVID-19 Trinidad and Tobago","authors":"Farley Joseph","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Joseph (2021) advanced a detailed qualitative portrayal of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the value network of the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) live music sector. The study culminated by proposing a potential business model for digital live music showcase and monetisation. Supported by a cross-sectional survey with a group of 204 live music fans, this paper pursues an initial quantitative examination of Joseph’s study (2021). It follows-up on select aspects of the sustainability and adoption possibilities of the proposed model. The results outline the customer profiles of online concert fans during the COVID-19 lockdown period in T&T, identifying 25–34-year-old fans as constituting a major audience segment, followed by the 35–45-year-old category. Tertiary education is a defining feature of the audience, who are tech savvy lovers of local music. They thrive in online environments, gaining information from social media, and are familiar with making online purchases using credit cards and alternative payment methods. Expanding on payment technology, the data suggest that there is no statistically significant relationship between the method of payment used for online concerts and spending, making the case for multiple payment options for monetisation of online concerts. Conversely, there is a statistically significant relationship between incorporating augmented reality/virtual reality features as well as on-demand business models, with the majority of fans expressing a willingness to spend on the format.","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"354 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132339872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William Tsitsos, R. S. Breckenridge, Walter Benjamin
{"title":"The Work of Reproduction in the Age of Digital Art: The Role of ‘Aura’ in the Revitalisation of Vinyl Records and Cassettes","authors":"William Tsitsos, R. S. Breckenridge, Walter Benjamin","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We explain recent popularity in vinyl records by reframing Walter Benjamin’s notion of ‘aura’ in terms of social forces such as alienation and cultural capital. Where he pays attention to specific artefacts’ mechanical reproducibility as a way of assessing their aura, we consider how mediums themselves broadly possess variable levels of aura inversely related to their ability to be mechanically reproduced by consumers. The more easily consumers can reproduce a medium, the less aura it possesses.","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132185324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin Oduro Arhin, M. Coffie, Hope Senalor Konu, Edwin Ekow Annan Ferguson
{"title":"Split Sheets in Ghanaian Recording Studios","authors":"Benjamin Oduro Arhin, M. Coffie, Hope Senalor Konu, Edwin Ekow Annan Ferguson","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The split sheet used at a recording studio is one of the essential means for any creative artist who understands its implementation benefits from the royalties that the creative work generates as it gets commercial merchandise. However, surprisingly, Ghanaian music producers and practitioners are yet to tap into the full potential of this avenue. This paper investigates the awareness and benefits of the split sheet among Ghanaian music producers and practitioners in the recording industry and the extent to which they have explored it. Using a mixed-methods mode of inquiry for data collection, we sampled music producers and practitioners (n = 218) in Ghana to briefly analyse the moneymaking through split sheets of songs available to music practitioners in Ghana’s recording industry. It was noted that 94.9% of respondents were unaware of the split sheet, while 92.7% did not know the benefit of the split sheet. However, only 4.6% of the respondents had used the split sheet. Subsequently, we conclude that the low awareness of the split sheet among Ghanaian music producers and practitioners compromises the decorum of the business side of creativity in the Ghanaian recording industry. Therefore, we recommend that more intensive education be undertaken to sensitise Ghanaian music producers and practitioners to the benefit of the split sheet in their daily work to enhance revenue generation.","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129932787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Music Business: Music Contexts, Rights, Data and COVID-19. Edited by Guy Morrow, Daniel Nordgård and Peter Tschmuck","authors":"C. Strong","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2023-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124480106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard Osborne and Dave Laing† (eds.) (2021). Music by numbers. The use and abuse of statistics in the music industries. Intellect. 270 pp.","authors":"E. Hitters","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121318917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hustla Playbook: Negotiating the Business Politics of Reggae in the Jamaican Rock Music Scene","authors":"Nadia Whiteman-Charles","doi":"10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The hustla philosophy of the Jamaican economy advocates the use of innovative and/or illicit methods to negotiate the harsh economic realities of the society. From two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Jamaica, I gleaned that local musicians applied this philosophy to support themselves and family. Most notably, local rock musicians used this mindset to survive their disadvantageous position on the periphery of the Jamaican reggae industry. They earned this status because their merger of “foreign” genres with reggae was perceived as undermining the cultural heritage of the Black populace. As a result, my analysis interrogates the attempts of rock musicians to secure work and legitimacy in a precarious and prejudicial job market. Institutionalized prejudices limited the popularity of local rock music and enforced repressive scripts. Despite these disadvantages, the Jamaican rock scene has made major contributions to the music economy by merging rock music with reggae and facilitating innovation and creativity within the contemporary Reggae Revival.","PeriodicalId":305960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Music Business Research","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127446246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}