Creative labour and collective interaction: the working lives of young jazz musicians in London

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Creative labour and collective interaction: the working lives of young jazz musicians in London
Work, Employment and Society
28
571-588
2014/08
eng
0950-0170, 1469-8722
This article explores the types of work undertaken by jazz musicians in London,categorizing their activities using two axes derived from debat
es over ‘creative labour’.
Firstly, the extent to which different jobs offer scope for creative autonomy and, secondly,the extent to which they involve collective as opposed to individualized working relationships.It focuses on the process of becoming es
tablished on the London ‘scene’, presenting qualitative interview data primarily with young workers seeking to build their careers.Musicians may make conscious decisions to pursue types of work which enable greatercreative autonomy, but in doing so they may exacerbate fatalism about poor workingconditions and undermine professional solidarity. The article also explores how pressures towards ‘entrepreneurialism’ in other forms of music work constitute further barriers to collective contestation of working conditions. Finally, it points towards types of music workwhere notions of professional economic interest have more traction
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Work, Employment and Society
10.1177/0950017013491452
Creative labour and collective interaction
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