ABSTRACT
Live music is also now routinely included in the collaboration of music industries and government in their common agenda of promoting British music as an economic good. Such collaboration has meant not just the creation of government/live music industry committees, but also the increasing importance of the economic statistics of the sector. As United Kingdom (UK) Music puts it on its website:The success of the music industry is largely dependent on the talent it works with. UK Music is, therefore, committed to an extensive programme of research which defines the industry’s place within the country’s cultural and economic framework and can also inform and influence current debate and decision making. In the last decade, there has been an endless flow of reports on the economic value of live music, reports displaying ever more ingenuity in determining the extent of its economic impact. In the jazz economy, secondary ticketing was not a significant factor; elsewhere, it was.
