1st Edition
Musicians in Crisis Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry
By Ioannis Tsioulakis
Copyright 2020
200 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Musicians in Crisis is a music ethnography of contemporary Athens, before and during the infamous economic and political crisis. It spans two contrasting periods in Greece: the last few years of relative economic prosperity and social cohesion (2005–2009) and the following period of austerity and socio-political turmoil (2010–2017). Based on the author’s participation and professional... Read more
- Introduction: Doing Music Ethnography in Greece
- Becoming a ‘Pro’: Skills, Strategies and Success
- A Community of Experience: Intimacies, Ideologies and Discourses
- Power and Performative Classes
- Locating the Music Precariat in the Greek Crisis
- Ways Out: Teaching, Artisanship and Micro-Scenes
- Epilogue: Musicians (always) in Crisis
Biography
Ioannis Tsioulakis is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at Queen’s University Belfast, He recently co-edited a volume entitled Musicians and their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation (with Elina Hytönen-Ng, Routledge 2017), and he has published numerous articles and chapters on Greek jazz music, cosmopolitanism and music professionalism.
