9 Reimagining Classical Music Performing Organisations for the Digital Age

Brian Kavanagh

This chapter considers how classical music performing organisations, particularly orchestras and opera companies, are changing in response to digital technologies and shifting stakeholder expectations. Both types of change can be framed by what certain theorists call institutional logics—that is, the mechanisms, practices, beliefs, and values that define the boundaries of institutional fields. Such logics shift over time, often because of radical technological change that “disrupts” established practices and behaviours within industrial sectors. The classical music industry, then, is a prime example for analysis of changing logics and innovations. Drawing ...

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