Art, Play, Work: The Lifeworlds of Musicians in Modern Times

“艺术、娱乐、工作：现代音乐家的生活世界”项目调查了德国音乐家的生活和工作环境，并遵循专业化的主题，追溯了他们在1870年至1960年间的转变。从教育和培训、工作条件、性别关系和不同音乐文化中的专业化进程以及对专业的跨国和技术影响等方面讨论了专业化的发展、程度和限制。该研究旨在呈现第一个密集的经验主义，超越类型的音乐家的社会和文化史，它不预先赋予特定的音乐流派特权，而是从长远的角度将音乐职业的社会和审美差异历史化。为此，本研究借鉴了职业社会学和文化社会学的概念。在方法上，采用了群体传记和话语分析的方法。这种分析框架将该项目主要与两个研究领域联系起来：一方面是音乐的社会史；另一方面，新的工作历史和当前关于所谓的创造性工作的兴起和社会意义的辩论。总的来说，这项研究揭示了德国音乐生活的历史，并承诺对普通音乐家的生活世界以及现代艺术，游戏和工作之间的个人音乐体验有新的见解。

The project Art, Play, Work: The Lifeworlds of Musicians in Modern Times investigates the life and work environments of musicians in Germany and, following the leitmotif of professionalization, traces their transformation between about 1870 and 1960. The development, extent and limits of professionalization are discussed with regard to education and training, work conditions, gender relationships and processes of specialization in different musical cultures as well as with respect to transnational and technological influences on the profession. The study aims to present the first densely empirical, genre-transcending social and cultural history of musicians which does not in advance give privilege to a specific musical genre but historicizes the social and aesthetic differentiation of the music profession in a long term perspective. For this, the study draws on concepts from the sociology of professions and cultural sociology. Methodically, procedures of group biography and discourse analysis are employed. This framework of analysis links the project primarily to two fields of research: on the one hand to the social history of music; on the other hand to the new history of work and current debates about the rise and social significance of so-called creative work. Overall, the study sheds new light on the history of Musical life in Germany and promises fresh insights into the lifeworlds of ordinary musicians as well as into individual musical experiences between art, play and work in modern times.