His research focuses on brokerage and social networks in creative industries and the labor and employment dynamics of creative clusters. He has used social network analysis to understand how nightclub talent buyers use their personal ties to search for and select musical acts and written about the history of the rap music scene in Massachusetts. His current research focuses on regional dynamics in the United States film and television industry. In addition, he recently received a grant from UMass to begin archiving a collection of unpublished artist demos and radio show tapes documenting Boston’s earliest local rap radio show, Lecco’s Lemma. A lifelong musical omnivore, Pacey is a DJ and guitar player with a deep love of vinyl records that he documents at his blog www.libraryofvinyl.org.