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Authenticity In Music Performance: Evidence From The Singer-Songwriter Community, Jon Littlefield
Authenticity In Music Performance: Evidence From The Singer-Songwriter Community, Jon Littlefield
Atlantic Marketing Association Proceedings
Experiencing music provides a unique lens to study identity. The alienation resulting from increased technological mediation in both music production and consumption might drive consumption (Potter 2010), hence authenticity may be an appealing positioning strategy for marketers. Singer-songwriters, for example, write and perform their own music with minimal technological interference. This represents a direct connection with the musician that we characterize as more historically authentic (Thornton 1996), however this characterization is not universal. In this paper, I seek to gather insight into the myriad expressions of authenticity within the music consumption environment by detailing a study of performance musicians.
Music As A Positional Good: Why Market Success Might Actually Drive Away Some Fans?, Timothy J. Schibik
Music As A Positional Good: Why Market Success Might Actually Drive Away Some Fans?, Timothy J. Schibik
Atlantic Marketing Association Proceedings
The Oxford Dictionary of Economics defines “goods” as things that people (e.g., consumers) prefer to consume more of rather than less. Further, these “goods” overwhelmingly adhere to a relationship between price and quantity known as the Law of Demand wherein consumers will purchase more of a good at lower prices than at higher prices. How the demand for these “goods” reacts to non-price stimuli is also well known and yields a place in the market system for marketing. Traditionally, the adoption of marketing techniques to alter the consumer satisfaction process and thus consumer demand has predictable impacts on the market …