Showcase festivals: gatekeepers and bridge builders in the music industries

Kjersti Livesdottir Thorkildsen; Anders Rykkja

doi:10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0006

Showcase festivals: gatekeepers and bridge builders in the music industries

Kjersti Livesdottir Thorkildsen, Anders Rykkja

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	47-58
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Music Business Research
Volume	11
Issue number	2
Early online date	13 Jul 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0006
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022
Externally published	Yes

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

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