The Costs of the Gig Economy
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The Costs of the Gig Economy

Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil

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eBook - ePub

The Costs of the Gig Economy

Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil

About this book

Institutions in Recife, Brazil, have restructured subsidies in favor of encouraging musicians to become more entrepreneurial. Falina Enriquez explores how contemporary and traditional musicians in the fabled musical city have negotiated these intensified neoliberal cultural policies and economic uncertainties.

Drawing on years of fieldwork, Enriquez shows how forcing artists to adopt "neutral" market solutions reinforces, and generates, overlapping racial and class-based inequalities. Lacking the social and financial resources of their middle-class peers, working-class musicians find it difficult to uphold institutional goals of connecting the city's cultural roots to global markets and consumers. Enriquez also links the artists' situation to that of cultural and creative workers around the world. As she shows, musical sponsorship in Recife and the contemporary gig economy elsewhere employ processes that, far from being neutral, uphold governmental and corporate ideologies that produce social stratification.

Rich and vibrant, The Costs of the Gig Economy offers a rare English-language portrait of the changing musical culture in Recife.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Setting the Musical Scene in Recife, Brazil
  9. 1 Enterprising Individuals: Contrasting Forms of Musical Entrepreneurship in Pernambuco
  10. 2 A Roda’s Rooted Cosmopolitan Groove: Aesthetically and Practically Negotiating Multiculturalism and Entrepreneurialism
  11. 3 Maracatu Nação Cambinda Estrela: Celebration and Struggle against Multicultural Neoliberalism
  12. 4 Rooted Cosmopolitanism at the FCP: Constructing a Multicultural State and Institutionalizing Entrepreneurial Standards
  13. 5 “Getting By” on Music: Entrepreneurs Negotiate Recife’s Music Scene in Crisis, 2013–2021
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index