Comment être musicien ? (original) (raw)

Sociologies, 2018

Abstract

On the edge of the contemporary transformations of work, artistic professions are often reduced to a set of distinctive traits that stress their originality in opposition to traditional wage work, but which tend to hide the internal stratification of these professional spaces and the variability of their structure from one national context to another. In order to show how "creative professions" do not avoid the power relations that structure any world of work, this article shows how the variability of national contexts determines the work of the "ordinary musicians", where people are neither rich nor famous and work mainly in popular music. The links with musical training, performing or teaching activity, but also with the statuses of employment for the musicians on either side of the Franco-Swiss border are analyzed to reveal different ways of being a musician. The analysis of the musicians social characteristics also shows that the different ways of living the musical career are strongly related to gender issues and accumulation of different forms of symbolic capital.

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