Abstract

CAPUZZO, Helder. Pianists at work: a discussion about professional music making in São Paulo. Laboreal [online]. 2023, vol.19, n.2, e21001.  Epub Dec 01, 2023. ISSN 1646-5237.  https://doi.org/10.4000/laboreal.21001.

The article shares part of the results of a doctoral research (Capuzzo, 2022) that considered the pianist's activity in the intersection between two dimensions that privilege its work: the first is related to the artistic and creative elaborations of instrumentalists who deal, primarily, with concert music; the second approaches the occupational insertion of pianists in society. Data collection was carried out through in-depth interviews ((Queiroz, 1991) with eighteen musicians who live and work in the city of São Paulo and in some municipalities in its metropolitan region. This study has profited from the research of ; (Huws, 2017) for understanding the morphology of contemporary labor, as well as the research of (Becker, 2008) and (Menger, 2005), that specifically problematize the theme of work in the arts. The results reflect the movements in the professional life of the interviewees who seek to reconcile autonomy at work with financial security.

Keywords : Piano; Musician labor market; Music making; Professional activity; São Paulo.

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