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The music industries hinge on entrepreneurship. The recent, rapid convergence of media and the parallel ongoing evolution of music businesses have again seen the focus shift to independent companies and individual entrepreneurs. Opportunities tend not to be advertised in professional music and practically everyone begins on their own: forming a band, starting a record label, running events, or building a website. But it's not an easy territory to navigate or get a handle on. This book features an analysis of the changing landscape of the music industries and the value of the entrepreneur within them through a series of focused chapters and case studies

"The book shows how national days are best understood in the context of debates about national identity. It argues that national days are contested and manipulated, as well as subject to political, cultural and social pressure. It brings together some of the most recent research on national days and sets it in a comparative context"--Provided by publisher

Gigs Will Tear You A Part : Accelerated Culture and Digital Leisure Studies / Steve Redhead -- 3D Printed Self-Replicas : Personal Digital Data Made Solid / Deborah Lupton -- "I'm selling the dream really aren't I?" : Sharing Fit Male Bodies on Social Networking Sites / Alison Winch and Jamie Hakim -- Experiencing Outdoor Recreation in the Digital Technology Age : A Case Study from the Port Hills of Christchurch, New Zealand / Caroline Dépatie, Roslyn Kerr, Stephen Espiner and Emma J. Stewart -- GoPro Panopticon : Performing in the Surveyed Leisure Experience / Anja Dinhopl and Ulrike Gretzel -- Serious Leisure, Prosumption, and the Digital Sport Media Economy : A Case Study of Ice Hockey Blogging / Mark Norman -- The (in)visibility of Older Adults in Digital Leisure Cultures / Shannon Hebblethwaite -- Demystifying Digital Divide and Digital Leisure / Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo -- Understanding Cyber-Enabled Abuse in Sport / Emma Kavanagh and Ian Jones -- Consuming Authentic Leisure in the Virtual World of Gaming : Young Gamers' Experience of Imaginary Play in Second Modernity / Michael Wearing -- E-gao as a Networked Digital Leisure Practice in China / Haiqing Yu and Jian Xu -- Teju Cole's Small Fates : Producing Leisure Space and Leisure Time on Twitter / Stuart J. Purcell -- Street Hauntings : Digital Storytelling in Twenty-First Century Leisure Cultures / Spencer Jordan -- Literary Work as a Leisure Activity : Amateur Literary Forums on the Czech Internet / Karel Piorecký -- Sexual Desire in the Digital Leisure Sphere : Women's Consumption of Sexually Explicit Material / Diana C. Parry and Tracy Penny Light -- Concluding Remarks / David McGillivray, Gayle McPherson and Sandro Carnicelli

The digital turn in leisure has opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate and be entertained - opportunities that have transformed what we recognise as leisure. This edited collection provides a significant contribution to our changing understanding of digital leisure cultures, reflecting on the socio-historical context within which the digital age emerged, while engaging with new debates about the evolving and controversial role of digital platforms in contemporary leisure cultures. This book also demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of studying digital leisure cultures. To make sense of how individuals and institutions use digital spaces it is necessary to draw on history, science and technology, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology and geography, as well as sport and leisure studies. This important and timely study discusses both the promise of the digital sphere as a realm of liberation, and the darker side of the internet associated with control, surveillance, exclusion and dehumanisation. Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical perspectives is fascinating reading for any student or scholar of sociology, sport and leisure studies, geography or media studies.

As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive 'events' policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation. Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to embrace this new direction in the field of events management. Its main aim is to locate the phenomena of events (and festivity) within a theoretical and strategic framework and, in doing so, demonstrate the links between the development of events in policy-making and the theoretical exploration of the role of events as policy. Building on a strong coherent framework, the book explores the conceptual terrain in which events and festivities are located, evaluates the range of theoretical perspectives pertinent to the study of events policy, appraises the socio-economic and socio-cultural implications of event-led policies internationally and draws together the main theoretical and event policy issues for the future. It utilizes a good range of international cases, from Dubai, Singapore, New Orleans and Glasgow, to help demonstrate the relationships between theory and strategy, and includes useful features to help students understand the subject and deepen their knowledge of the events policy terrain. This groundbreaking volume will be essential reading for students, researchers and academics of events and other related disciplines.

Mega-events attract ever larger media audiences, and the 2016 Rio Paralympics were no exception. As audiences grow, media coverage extends to ever more varied domains, which are themselves then colonised by an increasing range of discourses. One of main discourses to develop since the early 2000s has been that of the so-called supercrip, one which challenges the notion of "impairment" often connected with disability by foregrounding the para-athletes' triumph over adversity, celebrating instead their courage, grit, and perseverance leading to athletic success and personal and increasingly national prestige. In this article, we analyse the continuing importance of the supercrip discourse in coverage of the Rio Paralympics but also move on to highlight its tactical alignment with other—both competing and complementary—discourses of nationalism, sexualisation, militarisation, and celebritisation. We analyse textual and visual manifestations of these discourses using both critical discourse analysis and Foucauldian discourse analysis. We conclude by paying particular attention to the increasing visibility of discourses which, while acknowledging the potentially positive role of the supercrip discourse in focussing on athletic success, repurpose that discourse by foregrounding instead the day-to-day experiences of belittling misrepresentation and neglect, including political neglect.

This article offers a discourse analysis of media representations of paraathletes before, during and post the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in print and online sources, drawing on the lens of critical disability theory. We consider the importance of the media–sport cultural complex in influencing public attitudes towards disability. We conclude that whilst the importance of discursive change cannot be underestimated at the level of the media agenda, change at the level of lived experience will only flow from carefully designed and executed political and policy initiatives rather than directly from changes in the media presentation or visibility of individual athletes.