Matt Stahl

Unfree Masters

Popular Music and the Politics of Work

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353287
• ISBN-10: 0822353288
• Artikelnr.: 35212598

Autorenporträt

Matt Stahl

Inhaltsangabe

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