The Free-Lance Musician as A Type of Non-Person
An Extension of the Concept of Non-Personhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Frederickson (0000-0003-1875-7143, American University), James F Rooney (0000-0003-3261-0711, American University) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-239 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1988.tb01252.x |
| OpenAlex | W1965326212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
Free-lance musicians are professionally trained artists who lack permanent membership in any musical organization. Although trained to be creative artists, most frequently free-lancers play supporting music for operas, ballets and solo performers on stage, or provide background music for dinners or receptions. As a consequence, their technical skills are devalued by audiences; they often play music below their skill level; spontaneity in interpretation is extremely limited or impossible; they are anonymous to the audience and their playing generally receives an impersonal response; performances serve a functional rather than an aesthetic purpose; and players are interchangeable between groups. As a result of treatment as non-persons, free-lancers hold a sense of low prestige for themselves, and the occupation in many ways serves as a negative reference group for its members. Wide implications regarding non-personhood are drawn for an increasingly mechanized society. Contrary to Goffman's examples, non-personhood is not tied to occupations of limited skill, but rather, can occur in any occupational group under conditions in which individual interpretation, decision making, and power are nullified
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Musical · Personhood · Power (physics) · Prestige · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society
The Nonperson Treatment in Higher Education
Conceiving Artistic Work in the Formation of Artist Policy
Musicians as entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs as musicians?
Status and Career Mobility in Organizational Fields
The show must go on
Should I stay or should I go
Making It in a Cover Music Scene
Managing challenges on the front stage
On Becoming a Rock Musician
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Memories of my Life, by Francis Galton
On Becoming a Rock Musician
Hollywood Studio Musicians
The coming of post-industrial society
Relations in Public
Some Contingencies of the Professional Dance Musician's Career
Dramas, Metaphors, and Structures
Elements of Simplex Structure
The Simplex Located in Art Worlds
Psyching Out the Crowd
Employment and Social Integration Among the Skid Row Population
The Cabdriver and His Fare
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |