Players' work time : a history of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013 /
This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of musicians across the UK's music industries for this period and its role to date has largely...
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| Authors / Creators: | , |
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Williamson, John, 1949- author. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of musicians across the UK's music industries for this period and its role to date has largely been ignored by historians of the music profession, the music industries and trade unions. This book remedies that oversight, providing fresh insight to musicians' working lives, the industries in which they work and wider British social life. It explores a history of confrontation, coercion and compromise played out across the nation's studios, performance spaces and airwaves. This is about musicians' working lives in Britain from the late Victorian era to the present day. Using the Musicians' Union as a prism through which to explore those lives, the book illuminates the key factors which shape musicians' working lives including such things as changes in technology, law and the music industries, while also considering matters of nationality, gender and genre. Anyone interested in music and the people who make it will be interested in this history. |
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| Item Description: | Introduction 1. Musicians' organisations before 1893 2. Early days: the Amalgamated Musicians' Union, 1893-1918 3. Boom and bust: 1919-33 4. The politics of dancing: 1934-45 5. Worlds of possibilities: 1946-55 6. The beat generation: 1956-70 7. The John Morton years: 1971-90 8. Disharmony: 1991-2002 9. Beginning again: the MU in the twenty-first century Conclusion Index. CIP data; item not viewed. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9781526108296 1526108291 9781526108289 1526108283 |
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