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Beyond the Beat - Musicians Building Community in Nashville (Paperback)
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Beyond the Beat - Musicians Building Community in Nashville (Paperback)
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At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing,
what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might
contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on
interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in
Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists-those
visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's
individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a
model, Daniel Cornfield develops a theory of artist activism-the
ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist
communities. Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist
activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century
musician migration to Nashville, a city that boasts the highest
concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now
home to diverse recording artists-including Jack White, El
Movimiento, the Black Keys, and Paramore. Cornfield identifies
three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces
and distributes his or her own and others' work while mentoring
early-career artists, the social entrepreneur who maintains social
spaces for artist networking, and arts trade union reformers who
are revamping collective bargaining and union functions.
Throughout, Cornfield examines enterprising musicians both known
and less recognized. He links individual and collective actions
taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success,
audience, and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking
on music careers. Beyond the Beat offers a new model of artistic
success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the
society at large.
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