Small Venues as Networking Nodes Live Music in the Context of Creative City Development Master Thesis Efim Shapiro June 2020 Illustration: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/05/27/jjp-oud-cafe-de-unie-in-rotterdam-1925/ Master Thesis Global Markets, Local Creativities 2018-2020 Name: Efim Shapiro ERNA: 546333es Email:
[email protected] Small Venues as Networking Nodes Live Music in the Context of Creative City Development Supervisor: Dr. Jeroen JJ Euwe (Erasmus University Rotterdam) 2nd reader: Prof. Sonia Andolz Rodríguez (University of Barcelona) 3rd reader: Dr. Hannah-Louise Clark (University of Glasgow) Acknowledgments The process of writing this master thesis was a difficult journey with fluctuating success and occasional speedbumps. Difficulties in finding motivation, the limitations caused by the anti-COVID-19 lockdown, the problems of conceptualisation and other barriers appeared on the way. I want to express my gratitude to my supervisor Jeroen Euwe, who encouraged, motivated and guided me throughout this long process and without whose always detailed feedback the quality of this work would have suffered greatly. I am grateful to the whole team of the Poplive Research Project and, in particular, to Arno van der Hoeven and Rick Everts, who supervised my work during my internship at Poplive. I learned a lot from you about, among others, the music industries in the Netherlands, the research methods used to study live music and the sources I can use for my research. I want to thank all my professors and GLOCAL classmates for constantly inspiring me over the course of these two years. Finally, I want to thank our thesis study group of James Foss, Dyana Wing So and Iris Hsin Ping Cheng for the continuous support that guided me through the difficult final months of the thesis work spent in the lockdown.