Destined for Greatness: Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town

by Michael Ramirez

Pursuing the dream of a musical vocation--particularly in rock music--is typically regarded as an adolescent pipedream. Music is marked as an appropriate leisure activity, but one that should be discarded upon entering adulthood. How then do many men and women aspire to forge careers in music upon entering adulthood?

In Destined for Greatness, sociologist Michael Ramirez examines the lives of forty-eight independent rock musicians who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813588111
• ISBN13: 9780813588117
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher