2024/12/25 by Emília Barna, Ágnes Blaskó, Máté Horváth · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Cultural Industries and Urban Development #Gender Diversity and Inequality #Work-Family Balance Challenges
paper · doi:10.1080/03007766.2024.2446029
openalex publication_date 2024/12/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
The article explores the emotional labor of young female music managers in Hungary amidst global and local structural changes in the music industries. With the help of sociodrama, it explores managers’ emotional investment in their relation to musicians and music promoters, and argues that their heightened emotional labor is linked to a questioning of the legitimacy of their work arising from two main sources: the tension of the artist-manager profession as an intermediary between creative labor and capital, both amplified and transformed with digitalization; and the patriarchal gender order, which involves the naturalization of crucial aspects of music management.