This paper will try to show how the development of a vibrant and active music industry in Cape Verde can provide this country with a medium for long term economic growth and development. It uses a few case studies to illustrate this point: Senegal, Austin, and Jamaica. Finally, it provides a way forward for what should be the key elements of a strategy that Cape Verdeans should develop to brand and build a globally competitive Cape Verdean Music industry.

This issue has the special topic "Scandinavia".

The aim was, at an explorative level, to produce knowledge about and understanding of the buying behaviour of theatre distribution agents. A case study consisting of six cases was conducted. The data collection was based mainly on interviews. Findings indicated the need for an extra function in the buying centre: a confirmer. The buying process seemed more informal than the theory indicates. The programme decision did not concern a provider of a product; it was more a choice between different plays. The provider was more to be regarded as a selection criterion. There was a sort of calculation whereby the expected loss was related to the value of the performance.

Theatre Management: Producing and Managing the Performing Arts by David M. Conte and Stephen Langley, has just been released. The new book is written from the point of view that all of the performing arts share the same core issues and that skills learned in o­ne performing art are both applicable and easily transferable to another...

This article analyses and contextualises a variety of relationships between the cultural industries and cultural policy. A principal aim is to examine policies explicitly formulated as cultural (or creative)industries policies. It seeks to address questions such as: What lies behind such policies? How do they relate to other kinds of cultural policy, including those more oriented towards media, communications, arts and heritage? The first section asks how the cultural industries became such an important idea in cultural policy, when those industries had been largely invisible in traditional (arts- and heritage-based) policy for many decades. What changed and what drove the major changes?

This study is based on previous research on Quality, Satisfaction, Willingness-to-Pay and Spending behaviour, in tourism and particularly in the area of festival management. A web and telephone survey on 326 festival visitors was conducted at Storsjöyran Music Festival 2005 in Östersund, Sweden to give the base for new findings concerning visitors perception of their festival experience including their spending behaviour.

This paper deals with Born Globals (BG), i.e. companies which internationalise at an early stage and view the whole world as their activity field. The internationalisation concerns both the inward such as procurement as well as the outward (such as sales) in microbusinesses from two experience based, or so called creative, industries, Swedish Music and Fashion, seldom subject to internationalisation studies. The project investigates in which countries/markets these firms have international activities, why these countries/markets were selected and identifies direct or indirect connections between the inward and outward activities. The research provides a better understanding of the driving forces in internationalization at the micro-level, and gives help for the formulation of new EU export promoting policies.

The impact of technologies facilitating digital distribution of music on the recorded music industry has in the last few years received much attention in the popular press, and to some extent in the scholarly literature. However, there have been few attempts to explore the underlying factors explaining differences in innovative capabilities among record companies.

This thesis proposes that social networks and specific knowledge areas are important factors that can explain these differences among Norwegian record companies. The study therefore investigates the role of social networks and knowledge and their systemic properties related to innovation within digital distribution in the Norwegian recorded music industry.

Worldwide governments and regional authorities have begun to take seriously the idea that cultural and creative activities are crucial areas of economic activity. Industries such as music, film, media, advertising, gaming and design are seen to be increasingly worthy of not just cultural policy but also industrial policy support.

The paper describes the economic impact of music in Iceland and gives and account of the structure of the music industry and its management. Music is of significant importance for the Icelandic community. The discussion touches on the creative industries and accounts for the special position of music, as well as the strategic planning and social organisation that characterise the sector. The theoretical foundation is based on the methods of cultural economics and the methodology of the creative industries. The contribution of culture as a whole to the Icelandic GDP amounts to approximately 4%, and of this music accounts for approximately a quarter. Music fits very well in with the ideology of the creative industries. Porters five forces model is employed to describe the competitive position of enterprises in the musical industry in Iceland. The competitive position of Iceland in the music sector is analysed by the use of Porters Diamond.

Earlier or later in his or her professionship, an arts manager will face legal aspects.
Questions about copyright and intellectual property as well as problems with contracts- the manager should have a basic understanding to prevent crises in legal matters. No doubt, that he cannot replace a lawyer as the expert in such a case. We have chosen the relationship between Arts and Law as our special topic for this month and hope, you will get benefits with reading some of the 27 articles about it. One highlight is a report by our EU correspondent Tanya Wittal-Duuerkop. She wrote a review about the last European Writers congress in Brussels, which had a strong part and even a resolution about authors rights. This makes us obvious how much legal aspects can involve political dimensions, too.

Conference of the ESA Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts
Lueneburg and Hamburg (Germany), March 28-April 1, 2007

The ESA Research Network Sociology for the Arts is organizing its 8th meeting at the end of March 2007 in Lueneburg (Germany), with additional events in near-by Hamburg. The main conference venue will be at the University of Lueneburg, close to the medieval old town. The conference will feature keynote lectures, plenary discussions, paper sessions, workshops, and round tables.

The House of World Cultures realizes together with its partners Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (Poland), Danish Center for Culture and Development (Denmark), Intercult (Sweden) and Visiting Arts (Great Britain) the project Europe Now | Europe Next, a series of on-line and real-life Encounters accompanying the EU enlargement.

INTA, the International Urban Development Association and Direct94 - the Delegation for the Economic and Cultural Relations of the County Council of Val-de-Marne in France - have taken the initiative for a European reflection on the role of cultural institutions as tools for mediation and redevelopment of the public urban space. A seminar under the title "New Museums: Performing Tools for Social Cohesion", will taking place on 12-13 march 2007 in Val-de-Marne, France.

Organised by the European Writers Congress-EWC in cooperation with the European Federation of Journalists-EFJ, the International Association of Art/IAA Europe and InterGU

Authors Rights and the European Agenda 2007-2013 - Competitiveness & digital challenges, collective action & cultural diversity
Under the patronage of the Finnish EU Presidency , Hosted by the European Commission, DG EAC

This study is commissioned by the European Parliament in July, 2006. The content has threefold: Rights Management in the European Union, National Rules Governing Collective Management of Rights, and Details of National Legislative Frameworks. The report presents, for instance, the management of copyright and related rights, music rights management, the right management business in music, EU institutions and right management, the complexity of a regulatory approach, and recent market development.

In January 2006, Nettwerk declared to support a fan all the fee to go to court she had downloaded more than 600 songs in her computer - one of songs named Download the Song.

What did Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music Group advocate for this case? And what were his new strategies for music management to ameliorate the suffering industries? Was he successful?

Hong Kong, 7 February 2007... The China International Music Market (CIMM), scheduled for 17 - 20 May 2007 in Beijing, has received widespread support from the musical products industry, and attention from the professional media both in China and all over the world since its launch in August 2006. The fair's organizing committee, comprised of the China Music Instrument Association (CMIA), NAMM, the International Music Products Association, INTEX Shanghai and Messe Frankfurt, has been actively promoting the fair since this time, and have received a great deal of positive feedback about the event concept.