ABSTRACT
The role of music and musicians in the Hollywood motion picture, television film, and recording studios may be examined from several related perspectives: (1) the technical operations employed in film making, (2) the way in which these operations are assigned and the resulting division of studio labor, and (3) the hiring of musicians in the free-lance market. These features of technology and work organization illustrate the importance of production pressures in understanding musicians’ attitudes and feelings about their work. 1 Like the work of SAC bomber pilots, technicians at Cape Kennedy, air-traffic controllers, and railroad dispatchers, the structure of the studio setting is 31an intimately subdivided, elaborately coordinated, and precisely timed activity.
