Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
232Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
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Overview
Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to Nashville, a city that boasts the highest concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now home to diverse recording artists—including Jack White, El Movimiento, the Black Keys, and Paramore. Cornfield identifies three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces and distributes his or her own and others' work while mentoring early-career artists, the social entrepreneur who maintains social spaces for artist networking, and arts trade union reformers who are revamping collective bargaining and union functions. Throughout, Cornfield examines enterprising musicians both known and less recognized. He links individual and collective actions taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success, audience, and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking on music careers.
Beyond the Beat offers a new model of artistic success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the society at large.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780691183398 |
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Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
Publication date: | 11/27/2018 |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1. Creating Community in an Individualistic Age 1
Chapter 2. Artist Activism: Building Occupational Communities in Risky Times 17
Chapter 3. Self-contained, Self-expression: The Transformative Generation of Enterprising Artists 34
Chapter 4. Identities in Play: The Contemporary Generation of Enterprising Artists 65
Chapter 5. Creating Social Spaces for Artists: Pathways to Becoming an Artistic Social Entrepreneur 93
Chapter 6. Artist Advocates: The Corporate and Entrepreneurial Generations of Arts Trade Union Activists 121
Chapter 7. Community, Agency, and Artistic Expression 150
Appendix. Interview Schedule 166
Notes 173
Bibliography 191
Index 203
What People are Saying About This
"An emerging generation of musicians and artists in Nashville, Tennessee is drawing on a dynamic peer community that encourages activism, collaboration, and cross-promotion. Cornfield's illuminating and insightful Beyond the Beat skillfully chronicles the cohesive culture of this highly engaged and often inspiring community, and offers an encouraging take on creativity in the wake of digital disruption."—Ken Paulson, president of the First Amendment Center