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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480761503321

Autore

Williamson John <1949->

Titolo

Players' work time : A history of the British Musicians' Union, 1893–2013 / / John Williamson and Martin Cloonan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, Michigan : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5261-2078-X

1-5261-0828-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

331.88/11780941

Soggetti

Musicians - Labor unions

Musicians - Labor unions - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.