The ambivalence of becoming a small business
Learning processes within an aspiring rock band
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4305148 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tobias Malm (0000-0002-5450-0348, Royal College of Music in Stockholm, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 585-599 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143020000471 |
| OpenAlex | W3025357698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 48 |
The process of becoming a rock musician strongly relates to the organisational form of the band (Bennett 1980; Green 2002; Behr 2010). At all levels of ambition and success, membership of a band provides the musician with a natural entry point for performing to an audience and forging a potential career (Smith 2013a). The 'micro-organisational' (Bennett 2001) development of a band, therefore, is an important career prerequisite for rock musicians (Behr 2015). However, the social and practical challenges of musicianship seem to be continuously underemphasised within the field of popular music studies (Cohen 1993; Kirschner 1998; Lashua 2017; Weston 2017; Kielich 2018). Therefore, in this article I will focus on an aspiring rock band's informal learning processes in becoming a small business together. The study provides insights into the educational and organisational aspects of band practices and contributes to the fields of popular music, education and organisation studies - fields that are converging in the emerging interdisciplinary research area of 'organising music-making' (Beech and Gilmore 2015
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |