[ebooks] Design Computing and Cognition '14 by From Springer in Arts-Photography

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At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing; what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville; Beyond the Beat looks at artist activistsmdash;those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in todays individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model; Daniel Cornfield develops a theory of artist activismmdash;the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities.Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to Nashville; a city that boasts the highest concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now home to diverse recording artistsmdash;including Jack White; El Movimiento; the Black Keys; and Paramore. Cornfield identifies three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces and distributes his or her own and others work while mentoring early-career artists; the social entrepreneur who maintains social spaces for artist networking; and arts trade union reformers who are revamping collective bargaining and union functions. Throughout; Cornfield examines enterprising musicians both known and less recognized. He links individual and collective actions taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success; audience; and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking on music careers.Beyond the Beat offers a new model of artistic success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the society at large.