Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who
make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners' horizons …

“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of
success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying …

The intermediary work of persuasion and justification is an important but often hidden aspect
of urban cultural policy. Rather than the frictionless flow and 'transfer'of knowledge, the …

As the influence of algorithmic systems has grown, critics have come to appreciate that
algorithms are not autonomous technical forces, but rather heterogeneous sociotechnical …

Early-career crafts graduates often face a perceived dilemma, that of balancing passionate
work with their need to make a living. This paper explores the negotiation undertaken by …

Socially engaged, participatory music making is slowly establishing itself as a complement
to musicians' portfolio careers, although it may still be considered of less value than …

For contemporary cultural policy,'non-creative'work continues to form a conceptual blindspot:
a foil to define and value creativity against. This paper develops existing categories to …

Association football has been viewed as an industry with considerable lucrative career
prospects; however, this has not prevented the use of unpaid staff throughout football in the …

We would like to thank everybody at Help Musicians UK. A special thank you is due to
Jonathan Robinson whose initial introduction and subsequent hard work and support …

This chapter explores how cultural workers positively adapt and reorganize their personal
and professional lives in times of the COVID-19 pandemic–an ongoing adversity worth …