Company Work v. Patrician Raiders
Posted by v on September 27th, 2007Matthew Hyland
The late Derek Bailey’s musical ‘career’ was founded on years of wage labour as a guitarist in dancehalls and nightclubs. An idea which aspirants to today’s fully professional-entrepreneurial cultural sector would find barely comprehensible, suggests Matthew Hyland. For what other than individual elevation above wage-worker status defines the ‘creative’ life that these subvention-seekers clamour for so shrilly?
Originally from Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET on September 26, 2007, 6:27pm