Date of Completion
2016
Document Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Anthropology
Thesis Type
Honors College, College of Arts and Science Honors
First Advisor
Ben Eastman
Keywords
Music, Capitalism, Professional, Amateur, Burlington, Vermont
Abstract
The relationship between art and economics is complicated and difficult to pin down. Musicians of all levels of skill are often faced with a difficult question of when their playing becomes a career or when they are a "professional" musician. In an attempt to address these dynamics, this thesis integrates ethnography with economic theory to tease apart the factors and communities that surround them. It analyses interviews with local musicians, booking agents, and label executives through a lens of Marxist and post-Marxist philosophy to understand how art and capitalism interact.
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Recommended Citation
Sullivan, Adam, "Professionalism of Performing Musicians in Burlington, Vermont" (2016). UVM Honors College Senior Theses. 119.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses/119