MusicLIVES was a research symposium held on Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at The Tivoli in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.
The symposium attracted 40 registered delegates, including music sociologists, interdisciplinary academics, and representatives from music industry organisations and government agencies.
Sociology of music today: Australian sociologists presented on topics including music careers, digitalisation, gender, migration, genre, and substance use.
Crisis and reinvention for live music: academic, industry and government stakeholders shared updates on latest research projects and discussed issues facing the live music sector. Including representatives of the Live Music Office, MEAA Musicians Australia, The Push, Creative Australia and MusicNT.
Keynote presentation: Dr Catherine Hoad (Massey University, Wellington; Chair of IASPM-ANZ) reported on diversity research and venue support programs in Aotearoa, and explored how research findings may be taken back to university classrooms to support transformative music industry outcomes.
Full program below.
Funding: MusicLIVES was presented by Griffith University as a planned output of the Roaring Twenties project, with additional support from The Australian Sociological Association via the Sociology of Music thematic group.
Convenors: Ben Green, Sam Whiting, Catherine Strong, Andy Bennett
Organising Committee: Carl Anacin, Jordan Bain, Freya Langley, Charlotte Markowitsch, Chris Terry
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