Music commentator Dave Wilson joins Kathryn to look at the fascinating relationship between work and music. Creating, singing, and playing music are all forms of labour.
Audiences pay for tickets to concerts to watch and listen to musicians work. We talk about the "work" or "works" of a composer or artist. But people have for hundreds of years made music about work.
Through music they deal with the challenges of work, the exploitation of employers and capitalist systems, and grapple with the place of work in their lives among other priorities.
Dave Wilson is musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist, a senior lecturer at the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington
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