This article examines the labour market for ‘function’ musicians in London. It shows how the market encompasses a chain of relationships between clients, intermediaries and musicians, considering how the idea of ‘moral economy’- a subject of revived interest in employment sociology - fits empirical reality. It shows that function musicians have created a strong moral economy regulating the distribution of opportunities and resources within bands. However, other actors in the chain, particularly agents, are able to impose intensified labour competition on bands. This competition leads trust relationships to fray and social expectations about the distribution of resources to weaken. These tensions are embodied in the role of the fixer; a musi...
This chapter studies how and why artistic labor markets have expanded along a path of unbalanced gro...
In this article a moral economy approach is proposed that is informed by Karl Polanyi and E. P. Thom...
Organizations and labour markets.A comparison of the academic and musical worldsBuilding on a compar...
This article examines the normative expectations freelance jazz musicians have about the material co...
This paper looks at the way in which collective norms about the material conditions of work form on ...
Live music is a growing industry, but players are poorly paid and lead insecure careers, argues Char...
In artistic and cultural work, where unions and formal industrial relations institutions have weak i...
The primary purpose of this thesis is to provide a causal explanation of the emergence of the UK ear...
This chapter examines the evolving nature of work patterns and income streams for contemporary Music...
Despite its ubiquity in everyday life and non-Eurocentric musics, improvisation is discursively cons...
This chapter focuses on freelance musicians in London, Paris and Ljubljana, most of whom are self-em...
This thesis explores the precarious nature of backstage work within the live music industry. Live mu...
Consumer researchers have commonly analyzed marketplace performances as liminal events structured by...
This paper offers reflections on exchange relations in markets by exploring the concept of voluntary...
This thesis considers the dialectical relationship between music and commerce and asks the question ...
This chapter studies how and why artistic labor markets have expanded along a path of unbalanced gro...
In this article a moral economy approach is proposed that is informed by Karl Polanyi and E. P. Thom...
Organizations and labour markets.A comparison of the academic and musical worldsBuilding on a compar...
This article examines the normative expectations freelance jazz musicians have about the material co...
This paper looks at the way in which collective norms about the material conditions of work form on ...
Live music is a growing industry, but players are poorly paid and lead insecure careers, argues Char...
In artistic and cultural work, where unions and formal industrial relations institutions have weak i...
The primary purpose of this thesis is to provide a causal explanation of the emergence of the UK ear...
This chapter examines the evolving nature of work patterns and income streams for contemporary Music...
Despite its ubiquity in everyday life and non-Eurocentric musics, improvisation is discursively cons...
This chapter focuses on freelance musicians in London, Paris and Ljubljana, most of whom are self-em...
This thesis explores the precarious nature of backstage work within the live music industry. Live mu...
Consumer researchers have commonly analyzed marketplace performances as liminal events structured by...
This paper offers reflections on exchange relations in markets by exploring the concept of voluntary...
This thesis considers the dialectical relationship between music and commerce and asks the question ...
This chapter studies how and why artistic labor markets have expanded along a path of unbalanced gro...
In this article a moral economy approach is proposed that is informed by Karl Polanyi and E. P. Thom...
Organizations and labour markets.A comparison of the academic and musical worldsBuilding on a compar...