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<p>Showcase festivals are industry events comprising artist showcases and conferences. It may be argued that showcase festivals are an understudied offline field, since their role in configuring and maintaining a festival-like arena and providing a meeting place for the music industries remains largely unexplored from a scholarly point of view, as well as underappreciated and underestimated within the mainstream academic community. Their purpose is to present artists hoping to attract the attention of the core audience: industry professionals looking for new talent to sign and represent. The article provides an empirical study of the Nordic showcase festival by:Larm using theories of gatekeeping, fields and capital.</p>
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Showcase festivals are industry events comprising artist showcases and conferences. It may be argued that showcase festivals are an understudied offline field, since their role in configuring and maintaining a festival-like arena and providing a meeting place for the music industries remains largely unexplored from a scholarly point of view, as well as underappreciated and underestimated within the mainstream academic community. Their purpose is to present artists hoping to attract the attention of the core audience: industry professionals looking for new talent to sign and represent. The article provides an empirical study of the Nordic showcase festival by:Larm using theories of gatekeeping, fields and capital.

Showcase Festivals: Gatekeepers and Bridge Builders in the Music Industries

International Journal of Music Business Research

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Showcase festivals are industry events comprising artist showcases and conferences. It may be argued that showcase festivals are an understudied offline field,...

Showcase Festivals: Gatekeepers and Bridge Builders in the Music Industries

Article Category: Research Article

Publicado en línea: 13 jul 2022

Páginas: 47 - 58

Recibido: 22 dic 2021

Aceptado: 25 may 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0006

Palabras clave
showcase festival, gatekeeping, field-configuring events, capital, ecosystems

© 2022 Kjersti Livesdottir Thorkildsen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Showcase Festivals: Gatekeepers and Bridge Builders in the Music Industries

Article Category: Research Article

Publicado en línea: 13 jul 2022

Páginas: 47 - 58

Recibido: 22 dic 2021

Aceptado: 25 may 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0006

Palabras claveshowcase festival, gatekeeping, field-configuring events, capital, ecosystems

© 2022 Kjersti Livesdottir Thorkildsen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
showcase festival, gatekeeping, field-configuring events, capital, ecosystems