Toby Bennett 2018. “Essential—Passion for Music”: Affirming, Critiquing, and Practising Passionate Work in Creative Industries. in: Martin, L. and Wilson, N. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work Springer. pp. 431-459
| Chapter title | “Essential—Passion for Music”: Affirming, Critiquing, and Practising Passionate Work in Creative Industries |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toby Bennett |
| Editors | Martin, L. and Wilson, N. |
| Abstract | This chapter considers “passion” as an enthusiastic orientation to work within creative worlds: work motivated by intense attachments to the products of work and their conditions of production. Drawing on Luc Boltanski’s pragmatic sociology of critique and justification, the chapter argues that the passionate lens most usefully trains our sights on normative questions: not what or how—but why such work is undertaken. Embedded in research on cultural and creative industries, the contemporary recorded music sector is presented as a “passionate” industry in transformation. Interviews with workers, who both criticize and defend their industry, act as a springboard to explore three possible interpretive approaches: affirmative, critical, and pragmatic. Theoretical flexibility is needed to keep “passion” open to future inquiry—particularly regarding inequalities in creative work. |
| Book title | The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work |
| Page range | 431-459 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 2018 |
| 2018 | |
| ISBN | 9783319773490 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77350-6_21 |
| Journal | The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work |