Journal article
Navigating troubled waters; how are music festivals affecting the local concert industry?
International Journal of Music Business Research, Vol.9(2), p13
01 Oct 2020
Abstract
As more music festivals begin to develop every year, promoters look to protect their lineups by instituting radius clauses. These radius clauses prohibit artists from performing within a certain timeframe outside of the geographic location of the festival. As many of these festivals take place in major cities, what is the effect they are having on the local market? In my research, I use the Boston Calling Music festival to argue that radius clauses do not pose a threat to established concert promoters who are able to adapt amongst the competition, but rather smaller level artists are the ones who potentially could be negatively affected. As many of the agents and promoters are aware of the radius clause, they know that it is just one more thing for them to work around, and something that usually only places a temporary hold on booking a band. I support my argument with four semi structured interviews with a booking agent from Paradigm, a talent buyer from Boston Calling, and concert promoters from Live Nation and AEG. Additionally, I use data from Pollstar to examine the change in ticket sales for two Boston Venues after the Boston Calling music festival was established in their territory.
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Details
- Title
- Navigating troubled waters; how are music festivals affecting the local concert industry?
- Creators
- Jeffrey Apruzzese
- Publication Details
- International Journal of Music Business Research, Vol.9(2), p13
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Poland
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Arts and Entertainment Enterprise
- Identifiers
- 991021966371804721