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Working Musicians
Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production
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In Working Musicians Timothy D. Taylor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the labor of the mostly unknown composers, music editors, orchestrators, recording engineers, and other workers involved in producing music for films, television, and video games. Drawing on dozens of interviews with music workers in Los Angeles, Taylor explores the nature of their work and how they understand their roles in the entertainment business. Taylor traces how these cultural laborers have adapted to and cope with the conditions of neoliberalism as, over the last decade, their working conditions have become increasingly precarious. Digital technologies have accelerated production timelines and changed how content is delivered, while new pay schemes have emerged that have transformed composers from artists into managers and paymasters. Taylor demonstrates that as bureaucratization and commercialization affect every aspect of media, the composers, musicians, music editors, engineers, and others whose soundtracks excite, inspire, and touch millions face the same structural economic challenges that have transformed American society, concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.
About the Author:
Timothy D. Taylor is Professor of Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of many books, including Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World, also published by Duke University Press, and Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present.
Press Reviews:
"This is a wonderful book, written by a leading scholar of the music business who blends theoretical and empirical work on the relationship between professionalism and work for hire in a dynamic and readable way." -- Toby Miller, author of ― Greenwashing Culture
"Timothy D. Taylor conveys the intricacies of how working musicians in Hollywood learn to manage social, symbolic, and economic practices that sustain, disturb, or (momentarily) undermine the entrenched hierarchies that produce soundtracks. Working Musicians skillfully reveals the gulf between how creative work is meant to proceed and how it actually functions today." -- Louise Meintjes, author of ― Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid
See the publisher website: Duke University Press
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