Chaparro, Gerardo and Musgrave, George 2021. Moral Music Management: Ethical Decision-Making After Avicii. International Journal of Music Business Research. 10 (1), pp. 3-16. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2021-0001
| Title | Moral Music Management: Ethical Decision-Making After Avicii |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Chaparro, Gerardo and Musgrave, George |
| Abstract | Following the tragic suicide of Avicii (Tim Bergling) in 2018, many in the popular media, and reportedly the musician’s own family, were seen to question the ethics of decisions taken by his manager (Williams, 2018; Ralston, 2018). By applying a moral intensity test (Jones, 1991) in the form of a scenario-based questionnaire to six music managers based in London (UK), this article interrogates how and why music managers make the moral and ethical choices they do. The findings suggest that music managers are aware of ethical challenges emanating from their work, but that the relatively informal, loosely regulated nature of the music workplace complicates the negotiation of ethical and moral tensions. However, music managers’ close awareness of the ‘social consensus’ and ‘proximity’ of moral intensity suggests that cultural (as opposed to regulatory) change can help guide and inform managerial decision-making. |
| Keywords | moral |
| ethics | |
| music management | |
| mental health | |
| music industries | |
| Journal | International Journal of Music Business Research |
| Journal citation | 10 (1), pp. 3-16 |
| ISSN | 2227-5789 |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publisher | International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA) |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2021-0001 |
| Web address (URL) | https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/ijmbr-2021-0001 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published online | 30 Apr 2021 |
| Published in print | 01 Apr 2021 |