TY - JOUR
T1 - A test of Rosen's and Adler's theories of superstars
AU - Filimon, Nela
AU - López-Sintas, Jordi
AU - Padrós-Reig, Carlos
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support received from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and the European Union ERDF Programme (Project ECO2008-00419-E), the Commission for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Innovation, Universities and Enterprises of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia (Project SGR-2009-411) and the Centre for Research and Studies in Humanities (CERHUM-UAB; http://cehum.uab.es). This paper also benefited from insightful comments by two anonymous referees.
Copyright:
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PY - 2011/5/1
Y1 - 2011/5/1
N2 - This article compares and contrasts Adler and Rosen's theories regarding the stardom and popularity of musical artists through the impact of local linguistic policies on consumers' decisions to buy recorded music (CDs). Spain, with local linguistic policies implemented in Catalonia and the Basque Country, serves as an ideal quasi 'natural experiment' for testing these theories. The authors' predictions are addressed within a multilevel regression framework, with two main results: first, contrary to Rosen's predictions, the impact of local linguistic policies on the probability of buying music CDs is positive; second, local linguistic policies seem to contribute to increasing the production of music CDs in local languages, increasing the popularity of local artists with their audiences. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
AB - This article compares and contrasts Adler and Rosen's theories regarding the stardom and popularity of musical artists through the impact of local linguistic policies on consumers' decisions to buy recorded music (CDs). Spain, with local linguistic policies implemented in Catalonia and the Basque Country, serves as an ideal quasi 'natural experiment' for testing these theories. The authors' predictions are addressed within a multilevel regression framework, with two main results: first, contrary to Rosen's predictions, the impact of local linguistic policies on the probability of buying music CDs is positive; second, local linguistic policies seem to contribute to increasing the production of music CDs in local languages, increasing the popularity of local artists with their audiences. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
KW - Multilevel analysis
KW - Recorded music consumption
KW - Regional cultural policy
KW - Stardom and popularity
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-010-9135-x
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-010-9135-x
M3 - Article
VL - 35
SP - 137
EP - 161
JO - Journal of Cultural Economics
JF - Journal of Cultural Economics
SN - 0885-2545
IS - 2
ER -