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Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
Daniel B. Cornfield
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Description for Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; JFF; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists--those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model, Daniel Cornfield develops a theory of artist activism--the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities. Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to ... Read more
At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists--those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model, Daniel Cornfield develops a theory of artist activism--the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities. Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691160733
SKU
V9780691160733
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About Daniel B. Cornfield
Daniel B. Cornfield is professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Becoming a Mighty Voice and coeditor of Worlds of Work.
Reviews for Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
Shortlisted for the 2016 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present This innovative sociological study of the Nashville music scene explores the business realities of an industry that has been radically changed by technology... His findings are encouraging because they reveal an environment in which many artists support one another in their quest ... Read more