Unfree Masters - Popular Music and the Politics of Work

Informationen zum Autor Matt Stahl is Assistant Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Klappentext In "Unfree Masters," Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He argues that the widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. Zusammenfassung Asserts that the labor issues in the music industry can stimulate insights about the political-economic and imaginative challenges currently facing working people of all kinds 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

Product details

• Authors: Matt Stahl, Jeffrey J. Williams
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2012
• EAN: 9780822353287
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5328-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches