Freemuse is an independent international organisation advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression. In 2020, they released the report on “Security, Creativity, Tolerance and their Co-Existence: the New European Agenda on Freedom of Artistic Expression”. This report, after clearly defining what is “freedom of expression” and the crucial...
publications
On this page, you can find publications of studies and reports.
A European Music Export Strategy: Final Report
In the context of the Music Moves Europe call for tenders 2018, a study to define a European export strategy was published by the European Commission. This research is the product of a work carried out by a consortium of partners led by Le Bureau Export and EMEE with...
Sexual harassment, groping and assault at gigs and concerts – What we can do about it.
Healthy music audiences: music, gender and health is a small research project by the University of Leeds, investigating sexual violence at gigs in Leeds. The researchers are Dr Rosemary Lucy Hill, Professor David Hesmondhalgh and Molly Megson (University of Leeds). The project is a collaboration with The Leeds Music...
How to Open a Grassroots Venue & How to Run a Grassroots Venue
Our member in the United Kingdom, Music Venue Trust has published two guides on how to open and run a Grassroots Venue. Grassroots venues share the same values and mission. Live music is their main purpose, and they often take a financial risk when presenting new talents. From local...
Transformations in Music Booking. Analysing Professional and Subfield Autonomy Together.
This paper studies the autonomy of music bookers in regard of the structural independence of live music clubs and venues through the examples of Paris and Berlin. It was published in June 2019 in Symbolic Goods, a Social Science Journal on Arts, Culture and Ideas. It was written by...
They talk about us

Miguel Tudanca - (Madrid (Spain) )

Gunnar Geßner - (Hannover (Germany) )

Anders Tangen - (Oslo )

Armando Ruah - (Madrid )

David Dehard - (Brussels )

Isabelle Von Walterskirchen - (Zürich )