CMNS 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-1: Without Evidence, Counterpoint, Making Money
13 Mar 2017
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Working musicians: exploring the rhetorical ties between musical labour and leisure(karl. Music was but one talent among many including conversation, letter writing, eating, dancing and entertaining through which young women should display their natural politeness, humility and ability to please, warned etiquette gurus. Hartley advised women to display their musical amateurism in the same manner she believed professionals should advertise their mastery: don"t let them see you sweat. The idea that music should appear effortless that its execution should not require work has shaped critical and consumer interpretation in a wide variety of historical settings. The consciously contrived mask of effortlessness, i will argue, historically has obscured the ways in which music has functioned as a form of labour. two common concepts of work. The first roughly defines work as physical or emotional exertion towards a goal. The second defines work as a means of making money.
