MUSI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Who, Homosociality, Sex Pistols
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Class 4: jan. 31: musicians, social origins, and performance, communities, identities, art-vs-craft. Musicians differentiated themselves from non-musician ( squares : often employers or gatekeepers) Tension between art and commerce: selling out or going commercial . > the antagonistic relationship between the musicians and outsiders shapes the culture of the musician and likewise produces major contingencies and points in his career. (becker in l&b, 79) crisis. Better pay and security in commercial music results in decline in artistic value/enjoyment. Informal network of connections determines who obtains employment. Tension between maintaining artistic vision and need to make a living. Tensions between conception of musicians as artists or craftsmen . Semi-professional jazz musicians used part-time status as a means of avoiding the art/craft, authentic/commercial conflict. > identified the ways in which musicians see their work as both art and commerce and. > established that musicians generally prefer to be seen as artists rather than.
