Performing Artists and Precarity: Work in the Contemporary Entertainment Industries

by Melissa Tyler and Philip Hancock

This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK's live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, showing how their experiences of the pandemic provide insight into the different types of precarity shaping what it means to be a live performer.

A growing body of academic research has focused on the meaning, experience,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031661184
• ISBN13: 9783031661181
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 7.9"