Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present

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2 From Bohemia to the Balkans: Towards a Socioeconomic History of Itinerant Women Musicians, 1860-1889
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5 Hope, Labour and Privilege in American New Music
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6 A Lockdown Recording Project: Jazz Musicians and Metaphors for a Working Life.
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7 Emotional and relational labour in music from a feminist perspective
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8 Afghan Pop in Europe. Migration, Affect, and Musical Labour
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9 'It's a Kind of Macho Culture': Changes and Continuities in Young Female Musicians' Talk about Inequalities
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10 Women Working in the Music Business: An Alumni Study
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11 Musicians of the World Unite! The Initial Years of the International Federation of Musicians
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12 Towards More Inclusion in the Music Industry
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13 Moving Beyond @operaisracist: Exploring Black Activism as a Pathway to Antiracism and Creative Justice in Opera
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This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism.

Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors investigate the changing role of manifold actors, institutions and technologies and the corresponding shifts in the valuation and evaluation of music achievements that have shaped the relationship between music, labour, the economy and politics. With research into a variety of geographic regions, chapters shed light on the various ways by which musicians’ work is performed, constructed and managed at different times and show that musicians’ working practices have been marked by precarity, insecurity and short-term contracts long before capitalism invited everybody to ‘be creative’. In doing so, they specifically examine the dynamics in music professions and educational institutions, as well as gatekeepers and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion.

With a specific emphasis on inequalities in the music industries, this book will be essential reading for scholars seeking to understand the collective actions and initiatives that foster participation, inclusion, diversity and fair pay amongst musicians and other workers.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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