Can Music Make You Sick? Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition

It is often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent...
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Author: Sally Anne Gross
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Can Music Make You Sick? Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition by Gross, Sally Anne

Can Music Make You Sick? Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition

CHF 41.21

Can Music Make You Sick? Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition

CHF 41.21
Author: Sally Anne Gross
Format: Paperback
Language: English

It is often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent associations between cultural production and mental health problems. In their detailed study of recording and performing artists in the British music industry, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave turn this view on its head.

By listening to how musicians understand and experience their working lives, this book proposes that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic. The authors show how careers based on an all-consuming passion have become more insecure and devalued. Artistic merit and intimate, often painful, self-disclosures are the subject of unremitting scrutiny and data metrics. Personal relationships and social support networks are increasingly bound up with calculative transactions.

Drawing on original empirical research and a wide-ranging survey of scholarship from across the social sciences, their findings will be provocative for future research on mental health, wellbeing and working conditions in the music industries and across the creative economy. Going beyond self-help strategies, they challenge the industry to make transformative structural change. Until then, the book provides an invaluable guide for anyone currently making their career in music, as well as those tasked with training and educating the next generation.



Author: Sally Anne Gross, George Musgrave
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Published: 09/29/2020
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9781912656646

About the Author
Gross, Sally Anne: - Sally Anne Gross is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Westminster. She is also a music manager and music business affairs consultant.Musgrave, George: - Dr George Musgrave is an academic based at both the University of Westminster and Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a musician.

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