Beyond the Beat

Musicians Building Community in Nashville

Daniel B. Cornfield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-16073-3 (ISBN)

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At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists--those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model, Daniel Cornfield develops a theory of artist activism--the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities. Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to Nashville, a city that boasts the highest concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now home to diverse recording artists--including Jack White, El Movimiento, the Black Keys, and Paramore.
Cornfield identifies three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces and distributes his or her own and others' work while mentoring early-career artists, the social entrepreneur who maintains social spaces for artist networking, and arts trade union reformers who are revamping collective bargaining and union functions. Throughout, Cornfield examines enterprising musicians both known and less recognized. He links individual and collective actions taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success, audience, and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking on music careers. Beyond the Beat offers a new model of artistic success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the society at large.

Daniel B. Cornfield is professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Becoming a Mighty Voice and coeditor of Worlds of Work.

Preface and Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1. Creating Community in an Individualistic Age 1 Chapter 2. Artist Activism: Building Occupational Communities in Risky Times 17 Chapter 3. Self-contained, Self-expression: The Transformative Generation of Enterprising Artists 34 Chapter 4. Identities in Play: The Contemporary Generation of Enterprising Artists 65 Chapter 5. Creating Social Spaces for Artists: Pathways to Becoming an Artistic Social Entrepreneur 93 Chapter 6. Artist Advocates: The Corporate and Entrepreneurial Generations of Arts Trade Union Activists 121 Chapter 7. Community, Agency, and Artistic Expression 150 Appendix. Interview Schedule 166 Notes 173 Bibliography 191 Index 203

Zusatzinfo	5 line illus. 2 tables.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-16073-2 / 0691160732
ISBN-13	978-0-691-16073-3 / 9780691160733
Zustand	Neuware