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<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 28 Band People with Franz
Nicolay</b><br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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Seminar introduced & chaired by Melissa Tyler<br>
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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.<br>
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For more information on the book:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477323533/">https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477323533/</a><br>
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The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with
Firefly Frequencies: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fireflyfrequencies.org">https://fireflyfrequencies.org</a><br>
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Apologies for variable audio quality in the recording.<br>
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