ABSTRACT
This chapter employs a social network analysis to examine global urban networks of musical production. Specifically, the chapter examines the working flows that occur between recording studios, based in cities across the globe, when they are part of temporary creative projects that are brought together to produce recorded music albums. The analysis demonstrates how the spatial agglomerations of music industry firms, studios and creative labour in particular key cities remain central to music recording process in the age of digital music markets, with outstanding technical studio facilities strongly centralized in particular key cities, especially New York, Los Angeles and London.
