Over the recent years, technological changes in the music industry have altered the geography of music production and non-creative music work. Progress in information and communication technology has lead to decreasing revenues from record sales, which in turn has affected traditional income models for musicians, in particular income from record sales. Therefore, contemporary musicians need to spend longer periods on tour, thus being spatially fragmented in a multitude of geographies while performing artistic work practices. In light of such changes, new music geographies have started to gain the attention for performing artistic work, in particular temporary geographies at popular music festivals as well as digital online communities.This dissertation explores these spaces of music work and creativity, and the roles played by such spaces for Swedish musicians’ working lives. By using a triangulation of methods, this dissertation addresses three important features of the contemporary music profession. First, I explore the geographies of networks and network relations, and the role of networks for coping with contemporary working conditions. Second, I pay attention to the spaces of non-creative work, particularly in festival backstage areas. Third, I focus on how, when and where musicians perform creative work, and the relation between traditional studio locations and new opportunities for creative work while being on tour. Based on interviews, observations and netnographies, I argue that contemporary musicians perform much non-creative work in temporary festival backstage areas and in online communities while creative work preferably is located to traditional studio environments. I also argue that while female musicians and new-established musicians at large, due to increasing competition, have started to explore online communities, established musicians benefit from networking in face-to-face gatherings in order to gain job opportunities. Thus, there is a distinction between different groups of musicians based on career stage and gender.

Essa pesquisa consiste emsistematizar, analisar e interpretar informações e dados capazes de integrar uma discussão teórico-empírica sobre as feiras e congressos médicos como círculos de cooperação no espaço do complexo industrial da saúde no Brasil. Para tanto propomos analisar o papel da proximidade geográfica temporária no período técnicocientífico informacional a fim de compreender as possíveis funções dessas densidades comunicacionais temporárias no atual contexto de fragmentação geográfica da produção, internacionalização da economia e ampla necessidade de circulação de informações e conhecimentos. Nesse sentido, a análise das feiras e congressos médicos associados a análise das transformações do conteúdo do espaço geográfico da formação socioespacial brasileira e do desenvolvimento do complexo industrial da saúde no Brasil permitiu compreendê-los como elementos que sustentam os atuais círculos de cooperação ao imbricarem o nível local e global do acontecer, constituindo o acontecer efêmero de uma solidariedade globalizada através da divisão internacional do trabalho. / This research consists in the organization, analysis and interpretation of information and data enough to sufficiently compose a theoretical and empirical framework about medical trade fairs and medical congresses as circles of cooperation in in space. As to follows the analysis of the current role of temporary geographical proximity in the technical-scientific and informational period in order to comprehend the possible roles of these temporary communicational densities in the current context of geographical fragmentation of production, economic internationalization, and the widespread need of information and knowledge circulation. In this sense, the study of medical trade fairs and medical congresses related to the study of the transformation of Brazil\'s geographical space intertwined with the study of the development of the Brazilian health industrial complex allowed us to understand those two phenomena as elements that sustain the contemporary circles of cooperation, by overlapping local and global and constituting ephemeral gathering of a globalized solidarity made possible through the international division of labor

Essa pesquisa consiste emsistematizar, analisar e interpretar informações e dados capazes de integrar uma discussão teórico-empírica sobre as feiras e congressos médicos como círculos de cooperação no espaço do complexo industrial da saúde no Brasil. Para tanto propomos analisar o papel da proximidade geográfica temporária no período técnicocientífico informacional a fim de compreender as possíveis funções dessas densidades comunicacionais temporárias no atual contexto de fragmentação geográfica da produção, internacionalização da economia e ampla necessidade de circulação de informações e conhecimentos. Nesse sentido, a análise das feiras e congressos médicos associados a análise das transformações do conteúdo do espaço geográfico da formação socioespacial brasileira e do desenvolvimento do complexo industrial da saúde no Brasil permitiu compreendê-los como elementos que sustentam os atuais círculos de cooperação ao imbricarem o nível local e global do acontecer, constituindo o acontecer efêmero de uma solidariedade globalizada através da divisão internacional do trabalho. / This research consists in the organization, analysis and interpretation of information and data enough to sufficiently compose a theoretical and empirical framework about medical trade fairs and medical congresses as circles of cooperation in in space. As to follows the analysis of the current role of temporary geographical proximity in the technical-scientific and informational period in order to comprehend the possible roles of these temporary communicational densities in the current context of geographical fragmentation of production, economic internationalization, and the widespread need of information and knowledge circulation. In this sense, the study of medical trade fairs and medical congresses related to the study of the transformation of Brazil\'s geographical space intertwined with the study of the development of the Brazilian health industrial complex allowed us to understand those two phenomena as elements that sustain the contemporary circles of cooperation, by overlapping local and global and constituting ephemeral gathering of a globalized solidarity made possible through the international division of labor