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30 Jan 2008

P rosperity Institute Sonic City: The Evolving Economic Geography of the Music Industry Richard Florida and Scott Jackson January 2008 Sonic City: The Evolving Economic Geography of the Music Industry       Richard Florida and Scott Jackson    January 2008                              Florida (florida@rotman.utoronto.ca) is Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and  professor of business and [...] S. metropolitan areas. It also provided a more detailed cross‐sectional  analysis of the geography of music employment and music‐related business establishments for  all U. [...] S. combined statistical areas, core based statisical areas and counties in 2004.  Our analysis  suggests that the music industry is simultaneously becoming geographically both more  concentrated and more spread out. On the one hand, New York and Los Angeles remain  dominant centers, and a larger share of musicians overall is concentrated in fewer metros than  in 1970.   Furthermore, Nashville has [...] S. combined statistical areas, core based statisical  areas and counties for 2004.  Conceptually, the economic geography of the music industry is shaped by two major  countervailing forces. On the one hand, there are good reasons for the location of musicans to  spread geographically. Musicians, like other artists, are somewhat unique as economic actors, in  that they do not depend on their locati [...] S. County Business  Patterns, the U.
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Authors

Florida, Richard L

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33
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