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Embodied labour in music work
Author(s) -
Pettinger Lynne
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the british journal of sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.826
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1468-4446
pISSN - 0007-1315
DOI - 10.1111/1468-4446.12123
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , materiality (auditing) , craft , sociology , aesthetics , work (physics) , intersection (aeronautics) , reading (process) , epistemology , visual arts , linguistics , art , philosophy , mechanical engineering , engineering , aerospace engineering
Abstract This paper frames the work of performance as embodied labour in order to understand the contingent production of particular music performances. It is an interdisciplinary account that sits at the intersection of the sociology of work, culture and the body. The concept of embodied labour is developed with reference to the complex account of materiality – of bodies and things – present in T im I ngold's account of skill. This material account of skill is used to inform use to develop already of well established conceptualizations of body labour: craft, emotional and aesthetic labour through a reading of how these dimensions of embodied labour make possible the work of performance.