Book description
This volume brings together academics, executives and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of the classical music industry. The central practices, theories and debates that empower and regulate the industry are explored through the lens of classical music-making, business, and associated spheres such as politics, education, media and copyright.
The Classical Music Industry maps the industry’s key networks, principles and practices across such sectors as recording, live, management and marketing: essentially, how the cultural and economic practice of classical music is kept mobile and alive. The book examining pathways to professionalism, traditional and new forms of engagement, and the consequences of related issues—ethics, prestige, gender and class—for anyone aspiring to ‘make it’ in the industry today.
This book examines a diverse and fast-changing sector that animates deep feelings. The Classical Music Industry acknowledges debates that have long encircled the sector but today have a fresh face, as the industry adjusts to the new economics of funding, policy-making and retail
The first volume of its kind, The Classical Music Industry is a significant point of reference and piece of critical scholarship, written for the benefit of practitioners, music-lovers, students and scholars alike offering a balanced and rigorous account of the manifold ways in which the industry operates.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Foreword by Alan Davey
- Introduction
- Part I Principles and Practices
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Part II Identity and Diversity
- 6 Uncertain Capital: Class, Gender, and the “Imagined Futures” of Young Classical Musicians
- 7 Inequalities in the Classical Music Industry: The Role of Subjectivity in Constructions of the “Ideal” Classical Musician
- 8 Lifespan Perspective Theory and (Classical) Musicians’ Careers
- 9 Reimagining Classical Music Performing Organisations for the Digital Age
- Part III Challenges and Debates
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Classical Music Industry
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2018
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781315471075
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