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Band people : life and work in popular music / Franz Nicolay.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3795 .N526 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicolay, Franz, author.
- Series:
- American music series (Austin, Tex.)
- American music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicians--United States--Social conditions.
- Musicians.
- Musicians--United States--Economic conditions.
- Bands (Music)--Social aspects--United States.
- Bands (Music).
- Bands (Music)--Economic aspects--United States.
- Popular music--Economic aspects--United States.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Social aspects--United States.
- Music trade--United States.
- Music trade.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-the-stagers, rhythm and horn sections, backup singers, accompanists--these and other 'band people' are the anonymous but irreplaceable character actors of popular music. Through interviews and incisive cultural critique, writer and musician Franz Nicolay provides a portrait of the musical middle class. Artists talk frankly about their careers and attitudes toward their craft, work environment, and group dynamics, and shed light on how support musicians make sense of the weird combination of friend group, gang, small business consortium, long-term creative collaboration, and chosen family that constitutes a band. Is it more important to be a good hang or a virtuoso player? Do bands work best as democracies or autocracies? How do musicians with children balance their personal and professional lives? How much money is too little? And how does it feel to play on hundreds of records, with none released under your name? In exploring these and other questions, Band People gives voice to those who collaborate to create and dissects what it means to be a laborer in the culture industry."--Dust jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Training and early goals
- "Plays well with others" : the social lives of bands
- The work of band people
- The family business : musicians with children
- The artist and the artisan : money and credit
- Going bad : conflicts
- Peers and ambitions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781477323533
- 1477323538
- OCLC:
- 1419790670
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