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Creating the right ‘vibe’: emotional labour and musical performance in the recording studio
Recording studios are distinctive spaces in which artists are encouraged to expose their emotional selves in intimate moments of musical creativity and performance. In this paper, we focus on how music producers and recording engineers perform emotional labour as part of the „performative engineering‟ of this musical creativity and performance. Through emotional labour performances, producers and engineers create recording studios as emotional spaces, characterised by trust and tolerance. This is often referred to, by recording studio staff and musicians, as creating the right „vibe‟. We highlight two forms of emotional labour as particularly pertinent to „creating the right vibe‟: emotional neutrality and empathetic emotional labour. Emotional labour performances help to re-construct the recording studio as a space free of the social and feeling rules that otherwise shape our emotional landscape, and allow musicians to produce their desired musical performance.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Environment and Planning AVolume
45Issue
12Pages
2904 - 2918Citation
WATSON, A. and WARD, J., 2013. Creating the right ‘vibe’: emotional labour and musical performance in the recording studio. Environment and Planning A, 45(12), pp. 2904-2918.Publisher
© The Author. Published by SageVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2013Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Dalton Transactions and the definitive published version is available atISSN
0308-518XeISSN
1472-3409Publisher version
Language
- en