TY - BOOK AU - Gross,Sally Anne AU - Musgrave,George TI - Can music make you sick?: : measuring the price of musical ambition SN - 9781912656615 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - University of Westminster Press KW - Musicians KW - Mental health KW - Great Britain KW - Music trade KW - Psychological aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction : special objects, special subjects; What makes you think you’re so special?; You don’t have to be mad, but it helps; Can music really make you sick?; Abundant music, excessive music?; Communicating when music is media content; Music education and the pipeline; What are we seeking to do in this book?; Sanity, madness and music; Signs of emotional distress and the new language of mental health; Music and suffering : the limits of magical thinking; Methodology : our survey findings – anxiety and depression by numbers; A deep dive : solo artists, gender and age; Interviews : understanding feeling; Conclusion : status and the rhetoric of fantasies; The status of work; Financial precarity and defining ‘work’; Work, work, work; Money and meaning; Pleasure and self-exploitation; Professionalism and value; Musical ‘success’?; How to define success; Capital, image and illusion; Failure, responsibility and identity; Expectations and the myth of the future; The achievement-expectation gap; Music as social mobility; ‘Deification and demolish’; Conclusions : take part, make… content; The status of value; Validation ‘online’; Feedback and vulnerability; Competition and relevancy; Abundance and communicating; Validation in ‘the industry’; Reputation and contracts; The deal; On the role of luck; Luck, power and privilege; The myth of control and the nature of blame; Symbolic inefficiency and stickiness; Do you feel in control?; Conclusions : welcome to the ‘you’ industry; The status of relationships; Personal relationships; Family, guilt and sustainability; The role of London; Touring and family life; The work/leisure distinction; Music as a gambling addiction; Professional relationships; Women and their relationships; Sexual abuse and misogyny; Self-perception; Women online; Conclusions : drive and being ‘occupied’ by your occupation; Conclusions : what do you believe in?; Discipline and dreaming; ’Twas ever thus : what’s new?; Experiencing abundance, making data; ‘Let’s talk about it’ : what would living better look like?; Therapy and listening; Public policy and learning lessons?; Duty of care : responsibility and control; The case of Lil Peep; Music education now : reflections; Questions of content and new ways of teaching; Concluding thoughts : myths and wellbeing UR - https://unglueit-files.s3.amazonaws.com/ebf/2f3e2afaeeaf4cbbad0f0b2cd602fd6e.pdf ER -