Submitting Campus
Worldwide
Department
Aeronautics, Graduate Studies
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
3-23-2023
Abstract/Description
Building, maintaining, or scaling a sustainable music ecosystem business can be challenging due to a lack of resources to improve business operations, a lack of consistent goals, or know-how to capture and enhance customer value in an oversaturated and competitive music industry. According to Amy Wang, most musicians in the United States make $25,000 a year or less, and Next Big Sound follows up by stating that approximately 91 percent of artists go undiscovered. This study interviewed twelve independent musicians and used four common themes of the business of music, access to resources, digital technology, and performing rights organizations to examine perceived barriers to profitability and understand why they have an unworkable business model. The findings will teach students and assist musicians on how to implement the domains associated with Daniel Isenberg’s entrepreneurial ecosystem framework so they can work towards establishing a sustainable music ecosystem and reducing perceived barriers to profitability. Educators, leaders, and individuals concerned with the music and entertainment industry, or the education side will be able to analyze the musicians’ imbalanced resource allocation.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25101/23.20
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
44th International Summit of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association
Location
Las Vegas
Number of Pages
5
Scholarly Commons Citation
Hawkins, W. M., & Cross, D. (2023). A Musician’s Livelihood: Bringing Together Educators and Leaders to Examine Perceived Barriers to Profitability Through Musicians’ Lens. , (). https://doi.org/10.25101/23.20
Additional Information
David Cross was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.