Selected Publications

• Watson, A (2023) “Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy” International Journal of Cultural Policy.
• Watson, A, Leyshon, A and Windsor, G (2023) “Tech start-up capitalisation in an oligopolistic copyright industry: the case of the contemporary music industry” Cultural Trends.
• Watson, A, Watson JB, and Tompkins, L (2022) "Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music” Journal of Cultural Economy 16 (1), 32-46.
• Watson, A and Leyshon, A (2022) “Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry” Journal of Cultural Economy 15 (3), 326-343.
• Watson, A(2020) “Not all roads lead to London: Insularity, disconnection and the challenge to ‘regional’ creative industries policy” Regional Studies 5 (11) 1574-1584
• Ballico, C and Watson, A (eds.) (2020) Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept. Palgrave Macmillan
• Hoyler, M, Parnreiter, C and Watson, A(eds.) (2019) Global City Makers: Actors and Economic Practices in the World City Network. Edward Elgar
• Watson, A(2014) Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio. Routledge