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Value Creation in Scene-based Music Production: The Case of Electronic Club Music in Germany

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  • Bastian Lange
  • Hans-Joachim Bürkner

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The focus of this article is on the variability of value creation in the popular music industry. Recent trends in electronic music have been based on both the valorization of global tastes and of local specialities in performance and production. Depending on musical styles and market niches, local scenes have become important forces behind heterogeneous “globalocal” markets. At the same time, technological change and the virtualization of music production and distribution contribute to increasingly differentiated configurations of value creation. It is therefore necessary to reconstruct theoretically and empirically the new interplay among the local music production, digital media markets, and virtual communities that are involved. On the basis of empirical explorations in a German hot spot of electronic club-music production (the city of B erlin), the article indentifies local interaction practice and constellations of stakeholders. The findings show that value creation in these rapidly changing production scenes has moved away from the large-scale distribution of producer-induced media to audience-induced live performance and interactive soundtrack production. This change involves the rising importance of cultural embeddings such as taste building, reputation building among artists and producers, and local community building. Starting from an open theoretical problematization of value creation with regard to fluid scenes and shifting modes of production, the results of first empirical reconstructions are taken as inputs to an evolving discussion on the configurations of value creation in consumer-based strands of music production.

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  • Bastian Lange & Hans-Joachim Bürkner, 2013. "Value Creation in Scene-based Music Production: The Case of Electronic Club Music in Germany," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 89(2), pages 149-169, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:recgxx:v:89:y:2013:i:2:p:149-169
    DOI: 10.1111/ecge.12002
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    1. Verena Brinks, 2016. "Situated affect and collective meaning: A community perspective on processes of value creation and commercialization in enthusiast-driven fields," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(6), pages 1152-1169, June.
    2. Müller, Felix Claus & Ibert, Oliver, 2014. "(Re-)Sources of Innovation: Understanding and Comparing Innovation Dynamics through the Lens of Communities of Practice," IRS Working Papers 52, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS).
    3. Vincent Mangematin & Jonathan Sapsed & Elke Schüssler, 2014. "Disassembly and reassembly on digital technology and creative industries," Post-Print hal-00946932, HAL.
    4. Johan Jansson & Brian J Hracs, 2018. "Conceptualizing curation in the age of abundance: The case of recorded music," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(8), pages 1602-1625, November.

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