The Economic and Cultural Value of Live Music in the Northern Territory (MusicNT)

Valuing the economic and cultural contribution of live music is a complex task. Live music impacts physical, human, social, and symbolic capital at both an individual and community level. This research articulates how some of this complexity is converted by users into a set of economically valuable outputs that impact upon the welfare of society, providing for the first time, a detailed examination of the live music sector in the Northern Territory.