1st Edition
Working in Music on the Semiperiphery Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism
By Emília Barna
Copyright 2025
236 Pages
by
Central European University Press
While music as labor feeds into the capitalist cultural industries, this book proves that in this sector informality greatly permeates and governs power relations and the allocations of resources. The significant level of informal involvement of the household in the creative and reproductive processes is also explored. It is particularly in the semiperipheral context that the relationship between... Read more
Illustrations and Tables, Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 - CREATIVE AUTONOMY, THE STATE, AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM CHAPTER 2 - CREATIVE AUTONOMY IN THE SYSTEM OF NATIONAL COOPERATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION, INCORPORATION, AND DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHAPTER 3 - THE PLATFORMIZATION OF MUSICAL LABOR AND ITS SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS: THE CASE OF HIP HOP CHAPTER 4 - GENDER RELATIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE HOUSEHOLD IN MUSICAL LABOR CHAPTER 5 - EMOTIONAL LABOR IN MUSIC PRODUCTION CHAPTER 6 - LABOR, CRISIS, AND SOLIDARITY, APPENDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
Biography
Emília Barna, PhD is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is a sociologist and popular music scholar, whose main research areas include the music industries and digitalization, popular music and gender, cultural labor, and popular music and politics.
