Unfree Masters: Popular Music and the Politics of Work

by Matt Stahl

Book Overview

The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He begins by considering the television show American Idol and the 2004 rockumentary Dig , tracing the ways that popular music making is narrativized in contemporary America and showing how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353431
• ISBN13: 9780822353430
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"