Band people : life and work in popular music
Franz Nicolay
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Originaltittel | [ Band people ]
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| Omfang | 295 sider
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| Utgave | First edition
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| Opplysninger | Training and early goals -- “Plays well with others” : the social lives of bands -- The work of band people -- The family business : musicians with children -- The artist and the artisan : money & credit -- Going bad -- Peers and ambitions.. - "Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-the-stagers, rhythm and horn sections, backup singers, accompanists-these and other "band people" are the anonymous but irreplaceable character actors of popular music.Through interviews and incisive cultural critique, writer and musician Franz Nicolay provides a portrait of the musical middle class. Artists talk frankly about their careers and attitudes toward their craft, work environment, and group dynam-ics, and shed light on how support musicians make sense of the weird combination of friend group, gang, small business consortium, long-term creative collaboration, and chosen family that constitutes a band. Is it more important to be a good hang or a virtuoso player? Do bands work best as democracies or autocracies? How do musicians with children balance their per-sonal and professional lives? How much money is too little? And how does it feel to play on hun-dreds of records, with none released under your name? In exploring these and other questions, Band People gives voice to those who collabo-rate to create and dissects what it means to be a laborer in the culture industry." -Omslaget.
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| ISBN | 9781477323533
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