Christina Scharff

Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work

The Classical Music Profession

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines a range of timely issues such as the gender, racial, and class inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries; the ways in which entrepreneurialism - as an ethos to work on and improve the self - is lived out; and the subjective experiences of precarious work in so-called 'creative cities'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138942561
• ISBN-10: 1138942561
• Artikelnr.: 43677619

Autorenporträt

Christina Scharff is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Setting the stage: the cultural and creative industries,
entrepreneurialism, and the classical music profession
2 Documenting and explaining inequalities in the classical music profession
3 The silence that is not a rest: negotiating hierarchies of class, race,
and gender
4 Entrepreneurialism at work: mapping the contours of entrepreneurial
subjectivity
5 "Difficult, fickle, tumultuous" and yet "the best job in the world":
analysing subjective experiences of precarious work
6 Structures of feeling in two creative cities: London and Berlin
Conclusion: key contributions, directions for further research, and
recommendations