Performing Artists and Precarity: Work in the Contemporary Entertainment Industries
Philip Hancock, "Performing Artists and Precarity: Work in the Contemporary Entertainment Industries"
English | ISBN: 3031661184 | 2025 | 100 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3031661184 | 2025 | 100 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK’s live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, showing how their experiences of the pandemic provide insight into the different types of precarity shaping what it means to be a live performer.
A growing body of academic research has focused on the meaning, experience, and nature of precarity for those working in the cultural and creative sector, highlighting the problem of socio-economic precarity. This book demonstrates how a constant struggle for recognition also shapes the contours and lived experiences of live performance work. It emphasizes how, combined with affective and socio-economic forms of precarity, this recognitive precarity creates a distinctive and challenging set of working conditions.
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