Music on Demand

by Faulkner, Robert R.

• ISBN13: 9780878554034
• ISBN10: 0878554033
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1983-01-01
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Summary

Faulkner's interviews with those composers considered to be elite and those on the industry's periphery reveal how they perceive their careers, how they define commercial artistic success, and how they establish, or try to establish, those vital connections with filmmakers. Now available in paperback, this pioneering study will be of compelling interest to researchers in culture studies as well as readers interested in learning more about this little-known world.

Author Biography

Robert R. Faulkner is professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. viii
Foreword	p. 1
Preface	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 17
Credits and Careers: An Introduction	p. 19
Starting Lines: Entry Points and the Web of Colleague Affiliations	p. 48
Up from Sprinkler Drain	p. 69
No Musical Revolutions: Some Prompt Effects of Commercial Conventions	p. 89
A Small Army: Career Mobility and Precariousness in the Middle Area	p. 101
Symbolic Interaction	p. 120
Dual Interests: Opposing Tendencies and the Positive Aspects of Conflict	p. 148
Centrality in a Freelance Social Structure: Career Performances and Professional Networks	p. 168
The Chosen Few: Selectivity and Career as Retrospective Success	p. 225
Big Hollywood, Little Hollywood	p. 240
Index	p. 271
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