Urban music and entrepreneurship : beats, rhymes and young people's enterprise / Joy White.
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TextSeries: Routledge advances in sociology ; 193.Publisher: London : Routledge, 2018Description: 160 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138608894 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Music entrepreneurship -- England -- London | Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London | Youth -- England -- London -- Social conditions | Music | MusicDDC classification: 306.4'8424'09421 Summary: Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). However, the NEET categorisation covertly disguises and obscures the significance of the diverse range of activities, achievements and accomplishments of those who operate in the informal creative economy. With grime music and its related enterprise a key component of the urban music economy, this book employs the inherent contradictions and questions that emerge from an exploration of the grime music scene to build a complex reading of the socio-economic significance of urban music.
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Originally published: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). However, the NEET categorisation covertly disguises and obscures the significance of the diverse range of activities, achievements and accomplishments of those who operate in the informal creative economy. With grime music and its related enterprise a key component of the urban music economy, this book employs the inherent contradictions and questions that emerge from an exploration of the grime music scene to build a complex reading of the socio-economic significance of urban music.
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