1st Edition
Transnational Musicians Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry
By Beata M. Kowalczyk
Copyright 2021
204 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Informed by theories pertaining to transnational mobility, ethnicity and race, gender, postcolonialism, as well as Japanese studies, Transnational Musicians explores the way Japanese musicians establish their transnational careers in the hierarchically structured classical music world. Drawing on rich material from multi-sited fieldwork and in-depth interviews with Japanese artists in Japan,... Read more
Introduction
1. Theoretical and Methodological Approach
2. Positioning Japanese Classical Music within the Global Hierarchy of Value
3. The Plight of Musician in Japan
4. Studying Classical Music in its ‘Birthplace’: The Japanese go to Europe
5. Music Knows No Borders? Crisscrossing French, Polish and Japanese Music Milieus
6. Japanese Classical Musicians: Between Professional Satisfaction and Frustration
Concluding Remarks: Transnationality as a ‘Liminal status quo’
Biography
Beata M. Kowalczyk is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
