Working in Music on the Semiperiphery

Emília Barna, PhD is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is a sociologist and popular music scholar, whose main research areas include the music industries and digitalization, popular music and gender, cultural labor, and popular music and politics.

• Illustrations and Tables, Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 - CREATIVE AUTONOMY, THE STATE, AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM CHAPTER 2 - CREATIVE AUTONOMY IN THE SYSTEM OF NATIONAL COOPERATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION, INCORPORATION, AND DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHAPTER 3 - THE PLATFORMIZATION OF MUSICAL LABOR AND ITS SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS: THE CASE OF HIP HOP CHAPTER 4 - GENDER RELATIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE HOUSEHOLD IN MUSICAL LABOR CHAPTER 5 - EMOTIONAL LABOR IN MUSIC PRODUCTION CHAPTER 6 - LABOR, CRISIS, AND SOLIDARITY, APPENDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

“Expanding our understanding of what counts in the production of popular culture, Emília Barna performs a double reveal: beyond the usual suspects of the Global North; behind the most audible forms of musical labour. Here, professional musicians jostle alongside backstage industry employees, unpaid volunteers and domestic workers. Sensitised by its sophisticated hybrid of feminist social reproduction theory and world-systems analysis, Working in Music in the Semiperiphery locates the contemporary realities of Hungarian popular music within evolving state-market relations. A genuine revolution in how we make sense of making music." -- Toby Bennett, Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Organisation, University of Westminster “So much more than a ‘case study’ of Hungary, Emília Barna’s book is an essential contribution to understanding musical labour in the digital era.” -- David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds