Marek Korczynski

Rhythms of Labour (eBook, PDF)

Music at Work in Britain

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Whether for weavers at the handloom, labourers at the plough or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore the rich history of music at work in Britain and charts the journey from the singing cultures of pre-industrial occupations, to the impact and uses of the factory radio, via the silencing effect of industrialisation. The first part of the book discusses how widespread cultures of singing at work were in pre-industrial manual occupations. The second and third parts of the book show how musical silence reigned with industrialisation, until the carefully controlled introduction of Music while You Work in the 1940s. Continuing the analysis to the present day, Rhythms of Labour explains how workers have clung to and reclaimed popular music on the radio in desperate and creative ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107239937
• Artikelnr.: 39262497

Autorenporträt

Marek Korczynski is Professor of Sociology of Work at the University of Nottingham. He has written and edited a number of acclaimed books, including On the Front Line (1999, co-authored), Human Resource Management in Service Work (2002) and Social Theory at Work (2006, co-edited). He has also published widely on the connections between music and work, including articles in journals such as Work and Occupations, Organisation Studies, Popular Music, the Folk Music Journal, Business History, the Labour History Review, and Cultural and Social History. He gained his PhD from the University of Warwick and has been a Visiting Professor at Karlstad University, Sweden. Marek Korczynski and his fellow authors have released a CD of lost archived British work songs, entitled Rhythms of Labour (on the Harbourtown label).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: music at work and the sound of silence
Part I. Music at Work in Pre-Industrial Contexts: 2. From work song to singing at work
3. Hearing the British Isles singing
4. Fancy and function
5. Community
6. Voice
Part II. Industrialisation and Music at Work: 7. Silenced
8. Fragments of singing in the factory
Part III. Broadcast Music in the Workplace: 9. Instrumental music? The rise of broadcast music
10. Music and meaning on the factory floor
11. Conclusion: learning from the history of music at work.