An overview of the current state of the emerging "Concert Studies": Music and cultural scholars, cultural sociologists, economists, and practitioners discuss the concert scene across disciplinary boundaries, examining its history as well as its current and future developments. Topics include, among others, the education system, concertgoers, concert operations, music aesthetics and acoustics, and the further and new development of concert programs and formats. This volume is partly based on "The Concert. New Performance Concepts for a Classical Form" (2nd edition 2011) and supplements it with numerous new topics.