Music on Demand

Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2003
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7658-0508-9 (ISBN)

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In this remarkable study, Robert R. Faulkner shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and access to opportunity. Faulkner traces a network of connections that bind together filmmakers (employers) and composers (employees) and reveals how work is allocated among composers and the division of labor within the Hollywood film community, using statistical analysis and highly revealing personal interviews. One of the very first empirical studies in the "new economic sociology," Music on Demand shows the dynamics of markets constituted by the interaction between buyers and artistic talent (the producers and directors of feature films) and the sellers of artistic talent (the composers of film scores).

Faulkner's interviews with those composers considered to be elite and those on the industry's periphery reveal how they perceive their careers, how they define commercial artistic success, and how they establish, or try to establish, those vital connections with filmmakers. Now available in paperback, this pioneering study will be of compelling interest to researchers in culture studies as well as readers interested in learning more about this little-known world.

Robert R. Faulkner is professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California and is the author of Hollywood Studio Musicians: Their Work and Careers in the Recording Industry. He is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

1: Credits and Careers an Introduction; 2: STARTING LINES Entry Points and the Web of Colleague Affiliations; 3: Up from Sprinkler Drain; 4: NO MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS Some Prompt Effects of Commercial Conventions; 5: A SMALL ARMY Career Mobility and Precariousness in the Middle Area; 6: Symbolic Interaction; 7: DUAL INTERESTS Opposing Tendencies and the Positive Aspects of Conflict; 8: CENTRALITY IN A FREELANCE SOCIAL STRUCTURE Career Performances and Professional Networks; 9: THE CHOSEN FEW Selectivity and Career as Retrospective Success; 10: Big Hollywood, Little Hollywood

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2003
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7658-0508-1 / 0765805081
ISBN-13	978-0-7658-0508-9 / 9780765805089
Zustand	Neuware