This paper seeks to understand the role of valuing in urban live music ecologies. It explains how multiple actors (e.g. directors of music venues, musicians, policy-makers, and real estate experts) in Dutch live music ecologies negotiate the different values of live music. To examine this dynamic, we …

Purpose This paper sets out to compare different methodologies for measuring the value(s) of live popular music and to explore the different motivations amongst a range of organisations engaged in that work. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse how the values of live music are measured, who …

Over the past decades, different theoretical perspectives have been developed that help to understand the social context in which live music is produced and consumed. Theories from the fields of sociology, cultural studies and popular music studies have enhanced our knowledge of (live) music industries …

This chapter examines how the Berlin neighborhood of eastern Kreuzberg attained its mythical image as a youth culture neighborhood. It combines theories of myth-making and canonization with the concept of preference construction, thereby developing new tools to assess how certain ideas and images (e.g. …

PhD-presentation for the PhD-group of Popular Music Studies.

This is the closing chapter of the volume on the popular music studies in The Netherlands and Belgium (The Low Countries), which is part of the IASPM-book series Made in... . This chapter focuses on the influence of Dutch and Belgian popular music across the world. Filled with sometimes surprising examples …

Introduction to a special issue of the IASPM journal. This special issue on fan studies aims to build a bridge with the study of popular music in order to inspire further investigation of music fandom.

Onderzoek naar selectiecriteria zoals die in de alternatieve mainstream gangbaar zijn. Dat segment in het popmuziekcircuit hanteert een undergroundlogica (nadruk op authenticiteit) om zich van de in zijn ogen commerciële mainstream te onderscheiden. Daarbij gaat de aandacht naar economische (organisatorische), …