Urban Music and Entrepreneurship

Beats, Rhymes and Young People's Enterprise
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-60889-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 275 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). However, the NEET categorisation covertly disguises and obscures the significance of the diverse range of activities, achievements and accomplishments of those who operate in the informal creative economy.

With grime music and its related enterprise a key component of the urban music economy, this book employs the inherent contradictions and questions that emerge from an exploration of the grime music scene to build a complex reading of the socio-economic significance of urban music. Incorporating insightful dialogue with the participants in this economy, White challenges the prevailing wisdom on marginalised young people, whilst also confronting the assumption that the inertia and localisation of the grime culture results from its close links to NEET "members" and the informal sector.

Offering an ethnographic and timely critique of the NEET classification, this compelling book would be suitable for undergraduate and post-graduate students interested in urban studies, business, work and labour, education and employment, ethnography, music, and cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Joy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Foundations



Setting the Scene



Chapter 1. Introduction



Chapter 2: Grime in the City: Kinship and Belonging



Part II: Creative Enterprise as Social Practice



Chapter 3. Artist / Entrepreneurs: Working for Love and Money



Chapter 4. Business Studies from ‘The Ends’: Learning the Rules of the Game



Part III: Crossing Borders



Chapter 5. Enterprise Abroad: A Case Study from Ayia Napa



Chapter 6. Crossing Borders, Moving On: The Urban Music Economy as a Transformative Realm



Part IV: Conclusion



Chapter 7. The Wrap Up: Entrepreneurship in the Urban Music Economy



Appendix 1: The Research Sample



Appendix 2: Reflections on Method

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Joy White is a post-doctoral researcher whose interests include: enterprise, Grime music, social policy, mental health and wellbeing.