Current Research on Occupations and Professions: Creators of Culture - Occupations and Professions in Culture Industries v. 8

Part 1 Comparative-historical studies of occupation and reputation: the rescue of reputation - re-examining the fate of American women etchers, Gladys Engel Land and Kurt Lang; fashion design as an occupation - a cross-national approach, Diana Crane. Part 2 Social change and occupational and professional transformations: what buildings mean and architects say - economy and theory of architecture at a moment of crisis, Judith Blau; education and artists - changing patterns in the training of painters, Sarah Corse and Victoria Alexander; funding and the transformation of the professional artist - theoretical extensions and implications from the world of dance, Connie L. McNeely; the Hollywood graylist? audience demographics and age stratification among television writers, Denise D. Bielby and William T. Bielby; occupational and organizational consequences of the digital revolution in music making, John Ryan and Richard A. Peterson. Part 3 Creators interacting in art worlds: rock bands - collective creativity, Deena Weinsten; career and identity in Mexican-American conjunto musicians, Avelardo Valdez and Jeffrey A. Halley; the moral order and career mobility - tension as revealed in the case of theatrical technicians, Christopher Wellin; search and attraction in an artistic social matching process - how choreographers and dancers find each other, Samuel Gilmore.