Music on Demand

In this remarkable study, Robert R. Faulkner shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and access to opportunity

Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

1: Credits and Careers an Introduction; 2: STARTING LINES Entry Points and the Web of Colleague Affiliations; 3: Up from Sprinkler Drain; 4: NO MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS Some Prompt Effects of Commercial Conventions; 5: A SMALL ARMY Career Mobility and Precariousness in the Middle Area; 6: Symbolic Interaction; 7: DUAL INTERESTS Opposing Tendencies and the Positive Aspects of Conflict; 8: CENTRALITY IN A FREELANCE SOCIAL STRUCTURE Career Performances and Professional Networks; 9: THE CHOSEN FEW Selectivity and Career as Retrospective Success; 10: Big Hollywood, Little Hollywood