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The Creative Reputation Dilemma: Professional and Emotional Negotiation of Cultural Value
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Ooi, CS, The Creative Reputation Dilemma: Professional and Emotional Negotiation of Cultural Value, Exploring Cultural Value: Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice Kim Lehman, Emerald Publishing Limited, K Lehman, I Fillis and M Wickham (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 133-147. ISBN 9781789735161 (2021) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
This chapter is based on more than a decade of art world research in
Singapore but offers a single case of a composer who has composed a work
for an orchestra. This study presents the creative reputation dilemma faced
by many artists who attempt to be more entrepreneurial. Most countries
promote their creative economy, and that has generated a class of artist
entrepreneurs or ‘artrepreneurs’. Professional artists are encouraged and
challenged to be economically independent and also to make their practice
more profitable. For many artrepreneurs, maintaining their creative
reputation comes with emotional costs. The thick description in this chapter
demonstrates how an artist negotiates with the patron in finalising a new
piece of commissioned music. But they failed to close the deal. This case
deviates from studies that focus on successes in the creative industries.
Creativity entails experimentation and creating new things, but new things
may not be well-received. Nonetheless, these ‘unsuccessful’ works are part of
the art world and contribute to creating cultural value in society.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | creative reputation dilemma, Chinese orchestra, artrepreneur, music, creative economy, creative reputation, Singapore |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Sociology of culture |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Arts |
Objective Field: | The creative arts |
UTAS Author: | Ooi, CS (Professor Can Seng Ooi) |
ID Code: | 143650 |
Year Published: | 2021 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2021-03-29 |
Last Modified: | 2022-05-13 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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