Chicago Music City
Chicago Music City compares the strength and vitality of music industries and scenes across the United States. Sociologists, urban planners, and real-estate developers point to quality of life and availability of cultural amenities as important indicators of the health and future success of urban areas.
The Production of Popular Music as a Confidence Game: The Case of the Chicago Blues
In this article I argue that the production of live music shares many formal properties with that of confidence games.
Incumbents, Innovation, and Competence: the Emergence of Recorded Jazz, 1920-1929
We examine recorded jazz as a musical innovation of the early twentieth century.
Breaking the Box: Do We Need Arts Institutions in the 21st Century? The Case of Classical Music
George Lepauw, pianist and founder of the International Beethoven Project
Measuring the Cultural Vitality of Scenes: the Music Scene in Chicago
Lawrence Rothfield, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago