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Author_John Callan Williamson
Author_Martin Cloonan
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Music Industries
Music Profession
Musicians
Musicians' Union
Orchestras
Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
Product details
- ISBN 9781784991326
- Weight: 581g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
John Williamson is Research Associate in Music at the University of Glasgow
Martin Cloonan is Professor of Popular Music Politics at the University of Glasgow
