The Musical Assets of San Antonio
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Intro to the Music Industry: Course Readings
Dr. Stan Renard | Fall 2019
I find It interesting that in the article “culture-led regeneration” is the reason why we have the rising of our community. In some cases, I agree to this; however, in the article, according to Brooks and Kushner “much of the driving force behind cultural district development is the belief that the arts are a primary tool for urban revitalization.” I can see their point where everything is impacted by music but not everything is. It’s rather a choice to be impacted by it rather than being chosen to be impacted.
Here is a link to a blog about opinions of different views on how music impacts us and the society:
http://blog.sonicbids.com/what-kind-of-impact-does-our-music-really-make-on-society
Many individuals who have read this article would think that it is excessive for the city of San Antonio to analyze the impact of the live music sector geographically. However, the major influence of live music in society has been around for decades and many cities have significantly benefited from supporting the growth of the live music sector. With that in mind, it would be reasonable for many cities like San Antonio to examine the geographical impact of live music in the area with the intent to earn more revenue for the city. By earning more revenue from live music concerts, San Antonio would not only be benefiting the live music sector, but also the music industry itself. To learn more about how cities like San Antonio benefit from supporting the live music industry, click the link below: https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2015/05/article_0009.html
This article was an interesting read because you would think ticket and music marketing companies would already have wanted to have this kind of data. I also found it fascinating because this work is specifically related to our city. I was not aware prior to reading this that we hold the largest music education conference in the United States.
This article really caught my attention as it talks about how GIS data really impacts the live music sector. By using the musical landscape of San Antonio they were able to determine the data and even the geographical impact of how the live music sector can benefit San Antonio. San Antonio has plenty of room for growth when it comes to the music industry as it host multiple festivals, events, organizations, and even host the largest music education conference in the United States! Unfortunately, there are some discrepancies when it comes to where the music assets are as places in the North or Northwest parts are more musically-centric while the South and Eastern portions are not getting any musical assets what so ever. With all this data in mind just like the article mentions there is always room for growth for potential research when it comes to music related consumption, tickets, and the marketing of music.
Here is a link to music and society.
https://musicmagic.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/music-in-society/
And here is a link to the best music cities in the United States.
https://www.aimm.edu/blog/the-best-music-cities-in-the-united-states
I really enjoyed this article and how it talks about the importance of the live music sector. San Antonio is not usually seen as a big music city as far as live music and events but this article talks about why it is like this. Location intelligence allowed the study to show that the city is disproportionate in its distribution especially in the south and east parts of San Antonio. I really liked that this article was related to our city so I felt more of a connection in understanding how the location intelligence works. Below I added an article that goes into detail about the music scene in San Antonio.
http://www.sobresound.com/post/2016/4/13/problem-with-sa-music
The live music sector is on the rise across the states. Especially in Austin and San Antonio. Knowing what the cities workings thrive on and what type of music is demanded is an ongoing struggle, this article shows that and what sections struggle more than others. It also talks about how diversity plays a role in what type of music is played, like down at the Riverwalk versus what is listened to in other parts of the city. This article talks about the live music venues and what type of music is played and where in San Antonio.
http://sanantoniobands.net/san-antonio-live-music.html
GIS technology is truly fascinating and a very useful tool for determining where the money is for live performances in San Antonio. The need to supply what is demanded by consumers in an area is crucial for turning your niche market over into a growing fan-base. It’s also an easy way for finding where your fans are located and maybe even for acquiring new ones. Here’s the official City of San Antonio website for more information on its applications.
https://www.sanantonio.gov/GIS/About
This article is super interesting in regards to the live music scene in San Antonio. The music scene seems to be concentrated on the east and south parts of San Antonio so there isn’t a lot of distribution throughout the city. But the music scene is growing with the start of all these music festivals, which brings in a lot of tourism but also brings different sounds to this city. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kens5.com/amp/article/entertainment/music/san-antonios-live-music-scene-is-growing/273-481464992
I loved how this study is specific to the San Antonio live music scene because this city is usually overlooked by many people. The use of GIS technology is very useful to map out where music related events are happening, which is mostly concentrated in the downtown area. We also see how the poorer areas of San Antonio are being disregarded and have a high lack of music education within the area. This is a great report that can help local officials see the importance music has to the growth of the city. This article also mentions parking and how it effects the willingness of people to come to shows. I found an article that talked about San Antonio’s hopes to improve the music scene through parking. https://www.tpr.org/post/san-antonio-hopes-improve-its-music-industry-through-artist-exposure-better-parking
I do believe that the live music scene has allowed musicians to expand their career. In this study it is more specific to San Antonio’s live music scene. I think a lot of cities around the states and even the world are getting more involved in live music because it provides better revenue for the artist. What is really interesting about this study is that it uses the live music scene or moreso a musical framework and how it contributes to the academic and geographic stand points of the music industry.
Here is a link of how VR is possibly going to change the fate of live music/concerts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38743983/is-vr-the-future-of-live-music
Being that I frequent Paper Tiger on St. Mary’s all the time, it was no surprise to me that the area in the top designation for live music in the city. I find it concerning that the eastern and southern parts of the city are lacking in music education and music immersion in general, even though those areas are known to be poor economically and have high crime rates. I believe it’s important for everyone to have access to some sort of music education. Attached is an article depicting the importance of music education in public schools: https://theinspiredclassroom.com/2017/05/why-is-music-education-in-schools-important/
These graphs are amazing, I didn’t know how much musically big San Antonio is until today. There is a lot of information on music business, place, festivials and company with music around San Antonio that I have no idea that existed. This graph is really helpful for my information on getting gig or information on company that does music stuff. It is amazing on seeing how many music related that is happening around San Antonio. I would Never expected it to be this big because it is San Antonio, TEXAS. This is an website that sell tickets for music events happen around San Antonio for bands.
https://do210.com/events/music/today
This case study was interesting to look further into. On all of the figures shown under the data portion of the link, it appears that most live music venues/bars/clubs, music festivals, music related businesses, and more are all generally located in the downtown areas and on the north and northwest regions of the city. However, it was highlighted earlier in the article that the north and northwest regions are the most populous portions of the city. It would be rather interesting to see more info on plans to develop other sides of town to be more equipped to contribute to San Antonio’s music economy, as the population of San Antonio will undoubtedly grow in years to come.
While looking for more info about if any venues or music organizations have plans to expand around town, I came across this article that details the findings from a study done by San Antonio Sound Garden in 2017:
https://therivardreport.com/study-finds-healthy-music-scene-in-sa-but-a-nashville-or-austin/
This article is very informative about san antonio and its music venues and the locations of where they are all placed. These GIS graphs make it easier to analyze the music scene here in San Antonio, which makes it beneficial to promoters and musicians to see and plan out future events they might want to hold. I like how alcohol sales are included in this article as well. Music and alcohol go hand in hand in the music industry so it is important that it does take the sales into consideration a well. Maybe if these graphs fall into the right hands or someone with a big vision, they can build off of this and expand more in the music scene here and see the potential san antonio holds for live music. I know that even though we currently do not get as much shows compared to Austin, but maybe a new market will open up for different kinds of shows or even taking turns with Austin with some live performances. Here is an article about heavy metal bands in San Antonio. https://www.sacurrent.com/sa-sound/archives/2017/05/17/10-bands-making-sure-san-antonio-stays-metal-city-usa
I found this article, a study mapping music-related activities in San Antonio, to be very insightful for my research for the need of musical curriculum in public education. In his analysis, the author found that the lowest concentration of music-related activities occur in our cities poorest areas – Districts 2, 3, and 4 – while the highest concentrations are found not even 10 minutes away in the downtown area. Music plays a large role in the “culture-led regeneration” of urban areas, revitalizing and encouraging the community in economic and cultural development. Lacking a concentration of music-related activities puts these districts at even more of an disadvantage and should be the focus of urban development in San Antonio. Here is a link to an article about music as a tool for urban development: https://www.sounddiplomacy.com/our-insights/why-music-is-a-tool-for-urban-development
From this article, I found it interesting that San Antonio is the most visited city in Texas. This is a fact that I did not know before. I was aware that alcohol sales in San Antonio were extremely high, but I did not expect them to be as high as $611 million in 2017. I can only imagine how high that number is in 2019. San Antonio has a lot of bars/clubs in the downtown area and north, but there is almost nothing going on south of downtown. Here is a list of the top recording studios in San Antonio. —> https://www.thumbtack.com/tx/san-antonio/recording-studio/
I enjoyed this article because it was specifically about San Antonio and I learned a lot about this city that I didn’t know. I wasn’t very aware of how great the live music scene is. Living in Austin, I went out and saw live music frequently but since moving here I haven’t really ventured out past the UTSA area. This makes me want to go out and find some live music around town! I also liked how there was a graph on music-related businesses because it shows potential job opportunities which is great for a class full of people with an interest in the music industry.
Here’s an article about the best cities for live music:
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/best-cities-for-live-music-new-york-memphis-asheville-and-austin
What an interesting read. Very heavy on the data and the statistics about the music industry here in San Antonio. I found it interesting how much was actually involved with music here. I knew that we hosted the largest Texas Music Educators Association convention (TMEA), but I didn’t know that we were also big in the Tejano music as well. Something else that I found interesting was how spread out everything was form the music bars and venues to the music non-profits. What I saw was that there really wasn’t any market in the south side of San Antonio. Was there a specific reason for that or was it on purpose? Also, Do. you think that music bars and venues would still bring in the same revenue if alcohol consumption wasn’t a factor?
Heres an article about how alcohol affects the music industry
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/11/14/loud-music-drinking/
This article really drives home the point that Dr. Renard is always making: big data is the future of the industry. This research is so useful for so many different businesses and artists. I wish that the case study was taken a step further and combined with information from Agent-Based Modelling so that we could draw more accurate conclusions about why certain changes are occurring in the San Antonio music industry and what we could do to manipulate change to benefit the city’s cultural growth. I wonder what kind of amazing benefits might come from mapping the entire nation in this same way. This would especially be useful in planning a tour. I found a short article from Forbes that tells of different uses for location intelligence: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesinsights/2017/02/09/6-uses-of-location-intelligence-limited-only-by-imagination/#8e66829787f6
Since my generation values more “in-person” experiences, I can see why the live music sector would grow. Whether that be concerts, orchestras, operas, plays, or musicals they are all very sought after. Therefore, I found this article pretty interesting and entertaining because I have never actually taken the time to look into local data, and furthermore, I found this interesting as I am not from San Antonio originally and only knew about TMEA as I have taken part in it since middle school. I have always enjoyed going to various live shows, but I will definitely look at the shows I attend in a different light after this article.
Here is an article from my home town about local Hip-Hop artists in relation to the El Paso music scene
https://thecitymagazineelp.com/el-paso-hip-hop-scene/
Although San Antonio is not initially perceived as a music city, this article disproves this common belief. Even though I thought I knew the extent to which San Antonio celebrated art and music, this article makes me realize I was a bit more ignorant than I thought. The most interesting chart provided was probably the music education and alcohol sales, and it is fascinating to make the connections between our music scene and these factors. I wanted to look more into the differing music scenes in San Antonio, here is a link:
https://therivardreport.com/study-finds-healthy-music-scene-in-sa-but-a-nashville-or-austin/
Since San Antonio is often skipped on tours, it is easy to come to the conclusion that the live music scene in San Antonio is really small. However, with the help of GIS, this article illustrates that that isn’t the case at all. The musical assets within San Antonio are just spread out, with concentrations in the downtown area and the St. Mary’s Strip. I also thought the high correlation between alcohol sales and music-related activities was interesting. I had no idea that San Antonio was making $600+ million on alcohol sales every year.
Here is an article that gives a guide to the music scene in San Antonio:
https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/pump-up-the-volume-a-guide-to-san-antonios-music-scene/Content?oid=9586220
This article stated the answer on why exactly San Antonio never have huge concerts and many big names artist of every genre come here. The article had a bigger impact on me since I lived here my whole life and I know that not that many big name artist come and perform here and it stated why. It talked about how not everyone know the area and venues of the south and east side. This means that their could be a lot more music ability to play but not everyone is aware of that. I understand that we are a big Tejano city I go to most every event with local and big name artist. Yet, I feel we need more spaces for rap artist and hip hop artist, they all go to Houston, Dallas, Austin, but never here why is that?
Here is a yelp link to the “top ten venues in San Antonio”
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=musicvenues&find_loc=San+Antonio%2C+TX
It’s interesting to read how the live music sector in the music industry is the “core” of revenue. Within the past decade, cities have further developed their music scene. Perhaps this is because of urbanization and a growing economy. In today’s society, I have noticed how many people attend live music shows as if it was mass at every Sunday.
Heres an article about live music attendance: https://www.eventbrite.com/blog/4-statistics-defining-the-2016-music-festival-season-ds00/
This article provided to us gives more great insight within the music industry and something I found interesting was how the significance of the industry’s span, many cities around the world have committed resources to conduct research to reveal the value and impact of their live music sector. Another thing I found interesting was how cities are experiencing something called, “culture-led regeneration” that is manifesting itself in a variety of projects and landscapes created and imposed on those communities.” These are greater examples for cities who are realizing that the live music sector are just as important as anything else in the music industry for the now generation who have enjoyed live music more than ever.
Here is an article on the social and cultural values of the live music scene.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427511830996X
In recent years, the live music sector has become more prominent in Texas cities, Austin and San Antonio. This article discusses the separation of research of the different kinds of music and genres of music played in different parts of the city. It didn’t occur to me that geographical data and parking had this much to do with live music. GIS is a very useful research and data tool that could help people further analyze what music thrives in what city, state, or general area and which needs more. Cities like San Antonio show so much potential for the world of music and GIS technology is proving that.
For more information on GIS and its functions, go to this link!
https://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/GIS
It’s interesting to see the data behind the music industry here in San Antonio. I do agree that the arts are important when it comes to cities and the urbanization of it. Being that Tejano music is dominate in the San Antonio market, I also believe that is why many artist skip over San Antonio when it comes to different genres. The culture of a city plays a huge role and every artist should take into consideration and use data to strategically plan where the go. https://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/music-stage/article/Details-for-San-Antonio-s-biggest-Tejano-13588341.php
GIS is an amazing tool used in order to find where music is most popular to be played live in a certain area. The article specified on its use for the love music scene in San Antonio and Austin. I also thought the relationship between alcohol sales and music-related activities was interesting but, expected. I had an idea as to how much of a role alcohol sales played in the industry but, i had no idea that San Antonio was making $600+ million on alcohol sales every year.
Here is an example of GIS in use in the case of the beatles:
https://www.utilitydive.com/spons/digital-transformation-the-beatles-and-the-complete-gis/560605/
Live music is apart of the culture in San Antonio and being a native San Antonian, I know that it is hard to live without. In San Antonio, you have everything from cover bands to the awesome cumbia bands at market square. Live music is very important and brings money and tourists to this amazing city.
Here is an article all about the musical happenings here in San Antonio: https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/music/Section?oid=2240583
This is the first time I have seen what the music scene really looks like in San Antonio, and it is very interesting to see where exactly the music festivals and clubs are here in town. It seems that the scene is growing to the north and northwest, following the growth of the city itself. It is great to know that live music is growing in Texas in places like Austin and San Antonio and even Houston. San Antonio also has a diverse music scene and has had artists from Tejano, jazz, heavy metal, and everything else. Festivals Like Jazz Texas are among the most popular in the city and state, and venues like the paper tiger are places every artist in San Antonio must play at.
Here is an article to read if you are looking for places to listen to live jazz music in SA.
https://foursquare.com/top-places/san-antonio/best-places-jazz-music
I found this article pretty interesting especially because it has to do with San Antonio. Over the past 5 or 6 years I have started to see more artists and more festivals coming to San Antonio instead of artists usually skipping over it. At first that kind of blew me away because the live music scene here is amazing. The music scene here is growing fast and personally I think it is only going to keep growing. I added an article going into the music scene here in San Antonio. https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/pump-up-the-volume-a-guide-to-san-antonios-music-scene/Content?oid=9586220
I’m not from San Antonio, so it was interesting to learn about the live music culture here. It’s great to know that San Antonio has such a variety of genres when it comes to live music. It opens up so many opportunities for all types of artists.
Here’s an article that relates to this one: https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/pump-up-the-volume-a-guide-to-san-antonios-music-scene/Content?oid=9586220
This article gave the reader a better insight in just how the live music scene has been affected and approached within the last 10 years. Live music over the past decade has been artists best way to get the most of their money from their establishment, and only helps the artist get more exposure as they do them. The article gave alot of interesting insights, but my favorite was when it was telling the reader about how people are starting to take the live music industry into consideration when growing and starting these big communities and cities. I think that is one of the most important considering we are decided which area gets what kind of people if they are wanting to live in an area that best acquires their personalities.
heres an article talking about how where you live might effect your music career: https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/live-determine-far-youll-go-music/
It’s interesting seeing all of the graphs and maps about the live music sector here in San Antonio. I am somewhat familiar with the live music scene here in town, but it is still very beneficial to see everything in one map, and also realizing there is so much more than I have experienced. Something that shocked me was that San Antonio made over $600 million in alcohol sales in 2017; Although I knew that alcohol sales were high I did not expect that number.
Here I found some information about the music landscape in the Texas panhandle: https://www.sadmonkeymedia.com/blog/musical-landscape-of-the-texas-panhandle
I really enjoyed the fact that the article was based on San Antonio. I love that San Antonio is very diverse and knowing that I am not from San Antonio was also to provide me a whole lot of information it was quit overwhelming but found it very interesting. My favorite is that they are able to show you were a lot of artist performing, It gives you a map as well.
this article I found shows you what the music festival “Mala Luna” does to the music landscape in San Antonio.
https://www.sacurrent.com/sa-sound/archives/2016/10/25/what-does-mala-luna-mean-for-san-antonios-shifting-music-landscape
“Mapping Music Cities” taught me a couple of concepts that I never gave much thought to until now. It uses Location Intelligence or Geographic Information Systems to assess the impact music has in a given area and to present that data visually by mapping out the musical landscape. This method of analyzing trends and guiding development play a huge role in predicting the direction that music is headed in for every city. Live music has an enormous impact on the people of downtown San Antonio especially, the article attached describes how San Antonio is upcoming and being spotted on the radar for live music again.
https://www.snacknation.com/blog/workplace-distractions/
You wouldn’t think that the at first that alcohol sales would contribute to music but from reading this article it proves that that this fact is very true. I found this journal very interesting its amazing how technology works and we use it for almost everything. Reading about GIS was pretty cool I’m glad there are more people that enjoy the fact that music is so important . For more information on musical assets visit this website for more information: http://upcominghiphop.net/2016/01/16/the-most-valuable-asset-in-the-music-industry/
Reading an article specific to my home town will always draw my attention and I’m glad to see that the live music scene here in San Antonio is thriving and is on the up and up. Being in band growing up in this city gave me a lot of knowledge of the events that we have here such as TMEA and BOA along with numerous other conventions and events in the city that brought in a plethora of music lovers. This article is very data heavy which provides a lot of facts on the amount of music events and conventions that are hosted here in San Antonio which provides useful information for businesses and artists that are looking to rise up in this growing city. Below is an article going more in detail of the growing live music scene in San Antonio: https://www.kens5.com/article/entertainment/music/san-antonios-live-music-scene-is-growing/273-481464992
San Antonio Music sence is growing, i don’t know when it will grow as big as Austin. But looking at these maps that show lives venues, clubs, bar and festivials it is showing how much San Antonio is growing. As an Artist like myself this is extremely great because they said if you want to become a big artist start with owning your city first. So having San Antonio growing in the music sence is such a great thing not only for myself and also other artists. This article is on how big of San Antonio music sence. https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/pump-up-the-volume-a-guide-to-san-antonios-music-scene/Content?oid=9586220
This research is not particularly surprising for active musicians or concert-goers in the greater SA region. This paper corroborates my own experiences in both attending concerts and playing gigs, especially when examining who has hired me and what location the performances have taken place. What is intriguing is the gradual growth in music-related activity in the north-northwest side of town. I would expect it to be more rapid, considering the massice growth west of loop 1604 and even forther, 151 and I10.
Though not focused on the west side, here is an article on the population surge in San Antonio
https://www.forbes.com/sites/candaceevans/2018/07/13/largest-population-boom-in-the-country-is-in-san-antonio-texas-because-business/#2bbb10432b4b
Not being from San Antonio, I’m actually quite surprised that the music scene in San Antonio recently started growing exponentially. Ever since I was a freshmen here at UTSA, I would constantly hear about gigs from local bands and kept getting introduced to music from artists from here. It is great to realize a city is expanding their horizons and are now more open to a new, different genre. Here’s an article that lists different songs from different San Antonio artists. https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/want-to-discover-san-antonios-music-scene-start-with-this-playlist/Content?oid=21863936
I’ve always found the music industry in San Antonio fascinating. Being just an hour from such a large music city in Austin tends to make San Antonio get overshadowed. Austin often draws talented contemporary musics from San Antonio leaving an interesting live industry here that mostly Hispanic. Most major tours from large artists will skip us as well because they’d rather visit Houston or Austin. I’ve linked to a list of great live venues in San Antonio.
https://matadornetwork.com/nights/11-places-see-incredible-live-music-san-antonio/
The figures shown in the journal were very informative i found it interesting to see that the music-centric side of San Antonio started near downtown of the St. Mary’s Strip and spread northwest and northeast with the expansion of San Antonio itself. the data resented also shows that it is mostly a live music market. I also agree with the sentiment that art is a primary tool for urban revitalization.
this is a map of public artwork across San Antonio –> https://www.getcreativesanantonio.com/Public-Art/Public-Artworks-Map