Tell Tchaikovsky the News - Rock 'n' Roll, the Labor Question, and the Musicians' Union, 1942-1968 (Hardcover)

For two decades after rock music emerged in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the oldest and largest labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada, refused to recognize rock 'n' roll as legitimate music or its performers as skilled musicians. The AFM never actively organized rock 'n' roll musicians, although recruiting them would have been in the union's economic interest. In Tell Tchaikovsky the News, Michael James Roberts argues that the reasons that the union failed to act in its own interest lay in its culture, in the opinions of its leadership and elite rank-and-file members. Explaining the bias of union members—most of whom were classical or jazz music performers—against rock music and musicians, Roberts addresses issues of race and class, questions of what qualified someone as a skilled or professional musician, and the threat that records, central to rock 'n' roll, posed to AFM members, who had long privileged live performances. Roberts contends that by rejecting rock 'n' rollers for two decades, the once formidable American Federation of Musicians lost their clout within the music industry.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	March 2014
Authors:	Michael James Roberts
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-5463-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Advertising industry Books > History > General Books > Music > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8223-5463-2
Barcode:	9780822354635

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