Musicians in Crisis - Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry

Musicians in Crisis challenges popular narratives of the Greek predicament as they are reported by political and financial elites through international media.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Doing Music Ethnography in Greece


2. Becoming a 'Pro': Skills, Strategies and Success


3. A Community of Experience: Intimacies, Ideologies and Discourses


4. Power and Performative Classes


5. Locating the Music Precariat in the Greek Crisis


6. Ways Out: Teaching, Artisanship and Micro-Scenes


7. Epilogue: Musicians (always) in Crisis

About the author

Ioannis Tsioulakis is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at Queen's University Belfast, He recently co-edited a volume entitled Musicians and their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation (with Elina Hytönen-Ng, Routledge 2017), and he has published numerous articles and chapters on Greek jazz music, cosmopolitanism and music professionalism.

Summary

Musicians in Crisis challenges popular narratives of the Greek predicament as they are reported by political and financial elites through international media.

Product details

• Authors: Ioannis Tsioulakis, Tsioulakis Ioannis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780367500252
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50025-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: SOAS Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; MUSIC / General, The arts: general issues, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, The arts: general topics