Working Musicians
Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production
1st Edition
Published on 17. March 2023
272 pages
978-1-4780-2444-6 (ISBN)
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Timothy D. Taylor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the working composers, musicians, and engineers who create soundtracks for film, television, and video games.
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04/2023
Duke University Press
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Timothy D. Taylor is Professor of Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of many books, including Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World, also published by Duke University Press, and Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Working Musicians 1
1. Group Production, the Collective Laborer, Supply Chains, and Fields 19
2. Creativity 48
3. Composers' Labor 81
4. The Music Supply Chain after the Composer: Adding Value 119
5. Challenges 138
6. It's a Man's, Man's, Man's, Man's World 156
7. Neoliberalization as (Self-)Exploitation 177
8. "Thousands of Guys Like Me" 212
Notes 217
References 231
Index 245
Introduction: Working Musicians 1
1. Group Production, the Collective Laborer, Supply Chains, and Fields 19
2. Creativity 48
3. Composers' Labor 81
4. The Music Supply Chain after the Composer: Adding Value 119
5. Challenges 138
6. It's a Man's, Man's, Man's, Man's World 156
7. Neoliberalization as (Self-)Exploitation 177
8. "Thousands of Guys Like Me" 212
Notes 217
References 231
Index 245
