Naslov
Musicians’ Economic Everyday Reality – Cruder Side of Sustainability Concept

Autori
Vukobratović, Jelka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe

Mjesto i datum
Sinj, Hrvatska, 15.04.2018. - 21.04.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
music work, musicians' economic sustainability
(music labour, music sustainability, music economy)

Sažetak
Intended as a critique of UNESCO’s implementation of sustainability concepts, Titon in his articles in 2009 World of Music expresses a very utopian view of music’s sustainability being possible only through participatory practices, mutually and freely shared within a community, seeing professionalization as a negative effect which allows music to appear “in presentational forms (…), with the value-added mechanisms of commerce”, and encourages “thinking of music as a commodity” (Titon 2009b: 122). Successfully pointing out to some of the problems of Intangible Heritage Lists, Titon’s perception of music’s sustainability is however a very romanticist one, understanding researched communities as undifferentiated ones, ignoring the already-existing role of professional musicians and indirectly writing against the rights of musicians to be professionals in their area. If, as Titon claims, “sustaining music means sustaining people making music” (Titon 2009a: 6), should we not think about the real-life needs of people striving to sustain themselves as musicians? Deliberately going against the grain of the symposium’s definition of sustainability, this paper will attempt to pose questions on music as a form of labour and its economic sustainability. Some ethnomusicologists have already researched economic sustainability in traditional music, envisioning this discourse as an opposition to Titon’s (see O’Brien Bernini 2015, McKerrell 2018). The research this paper draws insights from is based on semi-professional and professional musicians of different generations and genres in North-western Croatia and their societal and market-based flexibility, survival or ephemerality.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti

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