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Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work The Classical Music Profession

By Christina Scharff Copyright 2018
224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when musicians become entrepreneurial and think of themselves as a product that needs to be sold and marketed? Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work explores these and other questions by drawing on innovative, empirical... Read more

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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

Biography

　

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

This is a beautifully written and compelling account of what it is like to work in the classical music profession. Written with admirable clarity and great insight, the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of gendered subjectivity in the workplace, and also to the growing field of studies of creative labour. A magnificent book that deserves to become essential reading.

Rosalind Gill, Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis, City University of London, UK

This is a dazzling and important book. Meticulously researched, Scharff documents the ways in which female classical musicians experience their own professional identities and how they become 'entrepreneurial subjects'. Scharff plays close attention to the texture of inequities in this milieu, and to how competition takes specifically gendered forms. The book is a major contribution to creative economy studies, to sociology,　social psychology　and gender studies.　

Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

Christina Scharff’s book is a superbly thoughtful and insightful feminist study of women musicians in two contrasting cities, and it is also a major contribution to studies of creative labour. It shows how cultural workers are required to be entrepreneurs – and skilfully reveals how this contributes to workplace inequalities.

David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds, UK

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