The importance of creative collectives in music industry: the Leiria's microclimatic music scene case

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Miguel Ferraz
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15830
• topic: Creative cluster; Creative industry; Music; Community; Creative collective; Music industry; Gestão de empresas; Mercado da música; Clusters; Criatividade; Comunidade; Leiria - Portugal; Portugal; Creative Cluster; Creative industry; Music; Community; Creative collective; Music industry

The present dissertation has for subject "The importance of creative clusters in Music Industry", but also takes in consideration the Microclimatic music scene case of Leiria, a city in the centre of Portugal. Music always have defined and influenced societies. Nowadays, it still plays a major role in modern society, but also has a profound and meaningful position in the world’s economy. Following this idea, it is purposed to consider the definition and context of Music Industry, to better understand how it influences the all market behind and how it interacts with companies and organizations that can be related to music. It was of interest to understand how Music scenes arise in certain geographic areas, once they have been one of the steps to have a greater understanding of the importance of clustering geographically, and its influences in the development of regional economic growth, where some scenarios were taken in account. The following chapter refers to creative industries and creative clusters, where it is searched the importance of creative industries to cluster and its influences in communities around. The last chapter takes in account the music scene in Leiria, how it aroused and the influences on the community. Finally, it was conducted a survey for music bands/music artists, creatives, producers, agents and promoters, to understand, what are, in fact, the importance's of creative collectives in producing and collaborating with music bands/music artists on their works.