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Players’ Work Time: A Social History of the British Musicians’ Union, 1893-2013

By John Williamson , Martin Cloonan

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
1526113945, 9781526113948
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24301578 bytes)
Pages
288\287
Time added
2017-06-27 09:51:58
Music;Biographies;Business;History & Criticism;Ins

Description

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.

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