The Classical Music Industry

Introduction

Chris Dromey and Julia Haferkorn

In recent years, discussion of classical music practices has flourished in areas as diverse as business studies, sociology, philosophy, information and communications technology (ICT), cultural studies, law, and education. From Dawn Bennett’s landmark study of the classical music profession, through assorted publications on the genre’s economic and social situation, to organisations reflecting on their own identity and impact, the classical music industry is being studied from strikingly new and different angles.¹ Our motivation for producing this volume was the realisation that these perspectives deserved to be recognised for what they comprise: a vibrant field of enquiry with the potential to effect ...