TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lange, Bastian
A1  - Bürkner, Hans-Joachim
T1  - Value creation in scene-based music production - the case of electronic club music in Germany
JF  - Economic geography
N2  - 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 Berlin), 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.
KW  - music industry
KW  - value creation
KW  - value chain
KW  - creative economy
KW  - Berlin
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/ecge.12002
SN  - 0013-0095
VL  - 89
IS  - 2
SP  - 149
EP  - 169
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schwarz, Anja
T1  - "Parallel Societies" of the Past? - Articulations of citizenship's commemorative dimension in Berlin's cityscape
JF  - Space and Culture
N2  - Historical narratives play an important role in constructing contemporary notions of citizenship. They are sites on which ideas of the nation are not only reaffirmed but also contested and reframed. In contemporary Germany, dominant narratives of the country's modern history habitually focus on the legacy of the Third Reich and tend to marginalize the country's rich and highly complex histories of immigration. The article addresses this commemorative void in relation to Berlin's urban landscape. It explores how the city's multilayered architecture provides locations for the articulation of marginal memoriesand hence sites of urban citizenshipthat are often denied to immigrant communities on a national scale. Through a detailed examination of a small celebration in 1965 that marked the anniversary of the founding of the modern Turkish republic, the article engages with the layers of history that coalesce around such sites in Berlin.
KW  - Berlin
KW  - commemorative acts of citizenship
KW  - migration
KW  - multidirectional memory
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331213487051
SN  - 1206-3312
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
SP  - 261
EP  - 273
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -