Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work write by Christina Scharff. This book was released on 2017-09-27. Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when musicians become entrepreneurial and think of themselves as a product that needs to be sold and marketed? Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work explores these and other questions by drawing on innovative, empirical research on the working lives of classical musicians in Germany and the UK. Indeed, Scharff examines a range of timely issues such as the gender, racial, and class inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries; the ways in which entrepreneurialism – as an ethos to work on and improve the self – is lived out; and the subjective experiences of precarious work in so-called ‘creative cities’. Thus, this book not only adds to our understanding of the working lives of artists and creatives, but also makes broader contributions by exploring how precarity, neoliberalism, and inequalities shape subjective experiences. Contributing to a range of contemporary debates around cultural work, Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies.
Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity
Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity write by Maria Pini. This book was released on 2001-09-06. Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can have for women at a time when femininity is undergoing radical reconstruction. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts given by a range of 'raving' and clubbing women and illustrates how new (and, in some respects, more appropriate to our times) fictions of femininity are generated within these accounts. Club cultures can, it is argued, come to provide important sites for the exploration of new ways of being women-in-culture. Focus upon these more subjective and experiential aspects reveals that today's dance cultures have much to offer women, and a lot more to say about femininity than is usually acknowledged. This suggests the limitations of much contemporary club culture criticism which concludes that because men tend to dominate at the levels of production and organisation, today's club cultures signal a sexual-political step backwards.
Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity
Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity write by Xin Gu. This book was released on 2023-08-28. Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse – from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of ‘labour time’ to ‘life time’. These changes have narrowed career pathways for creative workers, resulting in exploitative working conditions for both professionals and amateurs. The contemporary cultural industries accentuate entrepreneurialism, informed by ‘social network markets’ and a capacity to engage technologised consumer culture. This book suggests that a radically different view is needed to understand how creative workers justify their continued participation in the cultural industries. It pays particular attention to the identities of marginalised cultural workers (underpaid or under-rewarded) and argues that cultural work cannot be understood as a route into entrapment by self-exploitation (sacrificial labour) nor as an abstract form of creative autonomy. Creative workers must engage the ‘artist critique’ to re-claim the social values of making culture as ‘public labour’. Bringing together theory and practice via contemporary case studies, this book is a significant contribution to research on the cultural economy and will be of interest to researchers in this field and practitioners in the management of cultural work.
Fashioning the Female Subject
Fashioning the Female Subject - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashioning the Female Subject write by Sabine Sielke. This book was released on 1997. Fashioning the Female Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the interrelatedness of the poetry of three American women writers
Modal Subjectivities
Modal Subjectivities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modal Subjectivities write by Susan McClary. This book was released on 2019-10-22. Modal Subjectivities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions between mind and body, and much more. In doing so, it not only greatly expanded the expressive agendas of European music but also recorded certain assumptions of the time concerning selfhood, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the history of Western subjectivity. Modal Subjectivities covers the span of the sixteenth-century polyphonic madrigal, from its early manifestations in Philippe Verdelot's settings of Machiavelli in the 1520s through the tortured chromatic experiments of Carlo Gesualdo. Although McClary takes the lyrics into account in shaping her readings, she focuses particularly on the details of the music itself—the principal site of the genre's self-fashionings. In order to work effectively with musical meanings in this pretonal repertory, she also develops an analytical method that allows her to unravel the sophisticated allegorical structures characteristic of the madrigal. This pathbreaking book demonstrates how we might glean insights into a culture on the basis of its nonverbal artistic enterprises.
