The Costs of the Gig Economy

Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil

Falina Enriquez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2022
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04461-8 (ISBN)

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Institutions in Recife, Brazil, have restructured subsidies in favor of encouraging musicians to become more entrepreneurial. Falina Enriquez explores how contemporary and traditional musicians in the fabled musical city have negotiated these intensified neoliberal cultural policies and economic uncertainties. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Enriquez shows how forcing artists to adopt “neutral” market solutions reinforces, and generates, overlapping racial and class-based inequalities. Lacking the social and financial resources of their middle-class peers, working-class musicians find it difficult to uphold institutional goals of connecting the city’s cultural roots to global markets and consumers. Enriquez also links the artists’ situation to that of cultural and creative workers around the world. As she shows, musical sponsorship in Recife and the contemporary gig economy elsewhere employ processes that, far from being neutral, uphold governmental and corporate ideologies that produce social stratification.

Rich and vibrant, The Costs of the Gig Economy offers a rare English-language portrait of the changing musical culture in Recife.

Falina Enriquez is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2022
Zusatzinfo	11 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-04461-4 / 0252044614
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04461-8 / 9780252044618
Zustand	Neuware