Editors

About the Editor

Peter Tschmuck is Professor for Cultural Institutions Studies at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His research focuses on the music business/industry, the economics of copyright, and on cultural institutions and cultural policy evaluation. He is the organizer of the annual Vienna Music Business Research Days, editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Music Business Research and president of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA). He teaches courses at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Danube-University Krems and Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. He also held a guest-professorship at the James-Cook University in Townsville and Cairns/Australia in 2010.

Dennis Collopy’s music industry career included roles at Chrysalis Music, RCA Records, Riva Music, BMG Music Publishing, EG Group, PRS and MPA. He is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire having led a programme of music industry focused research since 2008 including three UK Music research projects and two Intellectual Property Office (IPO) commissioned studies on IP Rights. He was also a founding member of IMBRA, the International Music Business Research Association and co-editor of the IJMBR journal since 2012.

Beate Flath is Junior Professor at the University of Paderborn. She studied musicology, art history and business at the University of Graz. In 2009 she finished her doctoral thesis on the influence of sound-qualities on a product’s image within the context of TV-advertising. From 2009 to 2013 she was post-doc university assistant at the Department of Musicology (University of Graz) and from 2014 to 2015 post-doc university assistant at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna). By October 2015 she became Junior Professor of event management with focus on popular music, media and sports at the University of Paderborn (Faculty of cultural sciences, Music - Popular Music and Media).

Guy Morrow currently serves as a Lecturer in the Arts and Cultural Management program at the University of Melbourne. He also collaborates with the visual artist and video director Jefferton James and, in this capacity, has worked with Australian and international artists such as Passenger, Sheppard and Tim Rogers. During his tenure with the Australian band Boy & Bear, a band for which he was one of the founding managers, Guy Morrow negotiated agreements with multinational record companies and booking agencies. He is also the author of the book ‘Artist Management: Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries’, and co-author of the book ‘The New Music Industries: Disruption and Discovery’.

Sarita M. Stewart currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Entertainment Industry Studies program in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her teaching expertise is in the area of public relations, music marketing, and consumer research. Her main research focus is the topic of music consumption, specifically artist-fan engagement, with accompanying interests in the areas of video games, social media, and mood management.

Carsten Winter is Professor of Media and Music Management at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (Germany). He co-edits the International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR) and is the founding President of the German Gesellschaft für Musikwirtschafts- und Musikkulturforschung e.V. (GMM – Society for Music Business and Music Culture Research 2014-2016). His publications include more than twenty books and 75 journal articles and book chapters. His research interests include strategic media and music management, creative cities, cultural studies, media history and strategic media development.