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- Title
Occupational Rhetoric and Ideology: A Comparison of Copy and Original Music Performers.
- Authors
Groce, Stephen B.
- Abstract
This study focuses on similarities and differences between occupational rhetorics and ideologies of two groups of local level popular musicians, those who compose and perform their own music and those who perform music made commercially successful by other bands/performers. The analysis of in-depth interviews with twenty-five local level musicians demonstrates that the latter have developed an ideology which legitimates definitions of themselves as audience-oriented technicians who view the performance of music as an economic enterprise; musicians who perform original music share an ideology which stresses creativity over economic reward and legitimates a definition of themselves as primarily artists. Both types of musicians and their ideologies are discussed in relation to larger structural forces of the popular entertainment industry.
- Subjects
MUSICIANS; RHETORIC; IDEOLOGY; POPULAR music; CREATIVE ability; CULTURAL industries
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1989, Vol 12, Issue 4, p391
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00989399