1st Edition
Music as Labour Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present
1 Ironworks as Venues of Music Production: The Ostrava/Vítkovice Case from the 1890s to the 1910s
Fritz Trümpi
2 From Bohemia to the Balkans: Towards a Socioeconomic History of Itinerant Women Musicians, 1860–1889
Nuppu Koivisto
3 The MGM Lion’s Ominous Roar: (New) Technologies and the Disappearing Profession of Silent Movie Theatre Musicians in Croatia of the Late 1920s
Mojca Piškor
4 ‘Work that Body’: Disco, Counterculture and the Promise of the Transformation of Work
Tim Lawrence
5 Hope, Labour and Privilege in American New Music
John R. Pippen
6 A Lockdown Recording Project: Jazz Musicians and Metaphors for a Working Life.
Michael L. Jones
7 Emotional and relational labour in music from a feminist perspective
Emília Barna
8 Afghan Pop in Europe. Migration, Affect, and Musical Labour
Marko Kölbl
9 ‘It’s a Kind of Macho Culture’: Changes and Continuities in Young Female Musicians’ Talk about Inequalities
Christina Scharff
10 Women Working in the Music Business: An Alumni Study
Sally Anne Gross
11 Musicians of the World Unite! The Initial Years of the International Federation of Musicians
Martin Cloonan
12 Towards More Inclusion in the Music Industry
Sophie Hennekam
13 Moving Beyond @operaisracist: Exploring Black Activism as a Pathway to Antiracism and Creative Justice in Opera
Antonio C. Cuyler
Biography
Dagmar Abfalter is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
Rosa Reitsamer is Professor of Music Sociology in the Department of Music Sociology at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
"A profound compendium on deep-rooted inequalities and activism ... [and] an exemplary contribution to shaping the self-concept of cultural management as a socially responsible discipline not only in the mediation but also in the production of art." Verena Teissl, Arts Management Network
