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1st Edition

Urban Music and Entrepreneurship Beats, Rhymes and Young People's Enterprise

By Joy White Copyright 2017

172 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

172 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

172 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). However, the NEET categorisation covertly disguises and obscures the significance of the diverse range of activities, achievements and accomplishments of those who operate in the informal creative economy.... Read more

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations

Setting the Scene

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2: Grime in the City: Kinship and Belonging

Part II: Creative Enterprise as Social Practice

Chapter 3. Artist / Entrepreneurs: Working for Love and Money

Chapter 4. Business Studies from ‘The Ends’: Learning the Rules of the Game

Part III: Crossing Borders

Chapter 5. Enterprise Abroad: A Case Study from Ayia Napa

Chapter 6. Crossing Borders, Moving On: The Urban Music Economy as a Transformative Realm

Part IV: Conclusion

Chapter 7. The Wrap Up: Entrepreneurship in the Urban Music Economy

Appendix 1: The Research Sample

Appendix 2: Reflections on Method

Author(s)

Biography

Dr Joy White is a post-doctoral researcher whose interests include: enterprise, Grime music, social policy, mental health and wellbeing.

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