[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 28 Band People with Franz Nicolay

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 28 Band People with Franz Nicolay*
https://youtu.be/PACXNnWph_s

This episode is a recording of a seminar held at the University of Essex 
with Franz Nicolay on his book Band People. In it Franz Nicolay explores 
the working and creative lives of musicians. In it, he argues that to 
talk about the role of a ‘band person’ is not only to talk about art and 
craft but also to develop a critique of the value placed on fame and a 
celebrity culture that requires the singling out of individuals from a 
collaborative enterprise.

Band People foregrounds the political dynamics of cultural labour and 
the precarity that the working lives of musicians share with a growing 
segment of the larger economy. It sets out to uncover the wide pyramid 
of talent and effort that supports the work of making music. The book 
provides insights into how, in the creative sector, social groups 
organize themselves, into how musicians navigate aspects of their work 
such as anonymity and agency, and how the industry creates taxonomies of 
specialists and stylists, generalists and chameleons, hired guns and 
band members, road dogs and punch-clock session players, the fan 
favorite and so on. It asks, who are ‘band people’, the character actors 
of popular music?

Seminar introduced & chaired by Melissa Tyler

Bios: Franz Nicolay is a writer, musician, and faculty member in music 
and written arts at Bard College. In addition to records under his own 
name, he has been a member of World/Inferno Friendship Society and the 
Hold Steady. He is the author of The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: 
Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar and the novel 
Someone Should Pay for Your Pain.

For more information on the book: https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477323533/

The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with Firefly 
Frequencies: https://fireflyfrequencies.org

Apologies for variable audio quality in the recording.
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