Players' work time: A history of the British Musicians' Union, 1893â2013
Martin Cloonan and John Williamson
Abstract
This book is a history of the British Musicians’ Union (MU) from its origins in 1893 to 2013. It uses the Union as a prism through which to examine changes in musicians’ working lives, the industries they work in and wider British society. It argues that musicians can best be considered as particular sorts of worker and that while the MU’s history has hitherto largely been ignored or marginalised, it has much to teach us about musicians, their working lives and the power dynamics of the music industries.
Keywords: Musicians’ Union, Music Industries, Musicians, Music Profession, BBC, Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), Orchestras
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9781784991326 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9781784991326.001.0001 |
