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Musicians in Crisis - Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry (Paperback)
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Musicians in Crisis - Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry (Paperback)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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Musicians in Crisis is a music ethnography of contemporary Athens,
before and during the infamous economic and political crisis. It
spans two contrasting periods in Greece: the last few years of
relative economic prosperity and social cohesion (2005-2009) and
the following period of austerity and socio-political turmoil
(2010-2017). Based on the author's participation and professional
involvement in the local music scenes since 2005, the monograph
untangles a web of creative practices, economic strategies and
social ideologies through the previously unheard voices of Athenian
music professionals. The book follows the life stories of freelance
musicians of different genders, ages, educational backgrounds and
musical genres, while they 'work' and 'play' in Athenian venues,
recording studios and classrooms. Adding to the growing literature
on precarity and resistance in the creative industries, it traces
the effects of unprecedented socioeconomic circumstances on
musicians' everyday experience, as well as the actions and
solidarities that help them to navigate personal and collective
devastation. Through rich and evocative testimonies from the
labourers of an industrious popular music scene, Musicians in
Crisis contests popular narratives of the Greek predicament as they
are reported by political and financial elites through
international media. In this process, the book tells a story about
how popular music is made in the liminal spaces between East and
West, affuence and poverty, harmony and turmoil.
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