Development of Music Production, from Large Studios to your Bedroom: Professional Redefinition or Precarious Work?

Abstract

This article analyzes the precarization of work through the changes that influenced the productive activities in the music industry. We begin with the relationship between new ways of producing and consuming music when impacted by technological advances and piracy in the 21st century and proceed debating the influence of the prosumer. We sought basis on critical literature in people management to discuss the precarization of work and its consequences on the careers of professional musicians. The precarization/uberization of work also reached musicians, in a sense that thinking about a musical career today is also thinking about work relations and the context in which one is inserted. Therefore, class consciousness and collective organizing are fundamental to guarantee better working conditions.