New Book: Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry

I’m delighted to announce the second book from the BA (Hons) Entertainment Management  team at Leeds Metropolitan University: Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry – edited by Dr Ben Walmsley. This will be the first and only book on contemporary issues, which covers the arts and entertainment sectors, from social networking and Twitter, to reality TV and digital rights management. Each chapter has been written by internationally renowned academics and practitioners in the field from world-class organisations.

The study of arts and entertainment management is rapidly increasing all over the world. Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry offers a unique addition to the literature by taking an international perspective on the contemporary issues in these rapidly expanding sectors. With an experienced contributing team comprising subject experts from world-class academic and industry-based organisations, this new book covers every major sector of the arts and entertainment industry using up-to-date case studies from all over the world, it provides an in-depth critical analysis of hot topics and controversial contemporary issues.

Divided into 12 chapters for easy semester teaching, each chapter includes an illustrative case study to encourage students to apply their academic learning to real, work-based scenarios.

Chapter titles are as follows:

• ·         The audience experience: changing roles and relationships
• ·         The 21^st Century business model
• ·         Funding with a new agenda
• ·         Branding the arts & entertainment
• ·         Intellectual property in the digital age
• ·         Assessing the value of the arts
• ·         The 21^st Century Venue
• ·         The rise of home entertainment
• ·         The future of broadcasting
• ·         Cultural entrepreneurs
• ·         Cultural leadership
• ·         Responsible entertainment

The book will be available from Goodfellows Publishers from March 2011, further details can be found here: http://www.goodfellowpublishers.com/academic-publishing.php?promoCode=&partnerID=&content=story&storyID=245

Issues in Contemporary Entertainment and Arts Management (ICrEAM) Database is Launched

ICrEAM can be found at http://www.icream.eu , it is a contemporary issues and news database that has been created for students, academics, researchers and those working in the field of entertainment  / arts management - or a related discipline including leisure, events, tourism, cultural studies, creative industries, and media studies.

It is designed to provide up to date links to (mostly) contemporary news articles in the various sectors of the entertainment industry. ICrEAM was established by staff and students on the BA (Hons) Entertainment Management at Leeds Metropolitan University in May 2010, and will be a continually growing resource, where entertainment and arts management related articles will be summarised and linked to according to the sector(s) of the entertainment industry that the article most relates to.

We are ALWAYS looking to work with new academic partners in the fields of entertainment and arts management globally, if you would like to get involved in ICrEAM please do get in touch, using the email address at the top of this page. You can also suggest links for ICrEAM using the form linked here, we also have an ICrEAM Facebook Page on which you can suggest links for us to add to ICrEAM, please 'Like' our Facebook Page and suggest links on the page's wall.