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Unfree Masters
Popular Music and the Politics of Work
Taschenbuch von Matt Stahl
Sprache: Englisch

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The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He begins by considering the television show American Idol and the 2004 rockumentary Dig!, tracing the ways that popular music making is narrativized in contemporary America and showing how such narratives highlight musicians' negotiations of the limits of freedom and autonomy in creative cultural-industrial work. Turning to struggles between recording artists and record companies over laws that govern their working and contractual relationships, he reveals further tensions and contradictions in this form of work. Stahl argues that media narratives of music making, as well as contract and copyright disputes between musicians and music industry executives, contribute to American socioeconomic discourse and expose a foundational tension between democratic principles of individual autonomy and responsibility and the power of employers to control labor and appropriate its products. Stahl asserts that the labor issues that he discloses in music can stimulate insights about the political-economic and imaginative challenges currently facing working people of all kinds.
The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He begins by considering the television show American Idol and the 2004 rockumentary Dig!, tracing the ways that popular music making is narrativized in contemporary America and showing how such narratives highlight musicians' negotiations of the limits of freedom and autonomy in creative cultural-industrial work. Turning to struggles between recording artists and record companies over laws that govern their working and contractual relationships, he reveals further tensions and contradictions in this form of work. Stahl argues that media narratives of music making, as well as contract and copyright disputes between musicians and music industry executives, contribute to American socioeconomic discourse and expose a foundational tension between democratic principles of individual autonomy and responsibility and the power of employers to control labor and appropriate its products. Stahl asserts that the labor issues that he discloses in music can stimulate insights about the political-economic and imaginative challenges currently facing working people of all kinds.
Über den Autor
Matt Stahl
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Popular Music and (Creative) Labor 1

Part I: Representation 31

1. American Idol and Narratives of Meritocracy 36

2. Rockumentary and the New Model Worker 64

Part II: Regulation 101

3. Carving Out Recording Artists from California's Seven-Year Rule 105

4. Freedom, Unfreedom, and the Rhetoric of the Recording Contract 143

5. Recordings Artists, Work for Hire, Employment, and Appropriation 182

Conclusion: "I'm Free!" 226

Notes 235

Bibliography 269

Index 283
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822353430
ISBN-10: 0822353431
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stahl, Matt
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Matt Stahl
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.11.2012
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
Artikel-ID: 106593587
Über den Autor
Matt Stahl
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Popular Music and (Creative) Labor 1

Part I: Representation 31

1. American Idol and Narratives of Meritocracy 36

2. Rockumentary and the New Model Worker 64

Part II: Regulation 101

3. Carving Out Recording Artists from California's Seven-Year Rule 105

4. Freedom, Unfreedom, and the Rhetoric of the Recording Contract 143

5. Recordings Artists, Work for Hire, Employment, and Appropriation 182

Conclusion: "I'm Free!" 226

Notes 235

Bibliography 269

Index 283
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822353430
ISBN-10: 0822353431
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stahl, Matt
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Matt Stahl
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.11.2012
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
Artikel-ID: 106593587
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