ABSTRACT
Non-fiction narratives of cultural production and producers are undergoing a considerable expansion in a variety of media. This chapter proposes a social-theoretical framework for the analysis of this efflorescence through an examination of the documentary representation of popular musical careers, against the backdrop of recent analyses of organisational change in neoliberal work regimes. The developing interactions of neoliberal politicaleconomic change, the social division of labour, and the labour process are of increasing interest to social scientists and theorists (e.g. Boltanski and Chiapello 2005; Sennett 1998, 2006; Reich 2001); this chapter focuses on the figure of the creative worker as agent and pedagogue of such change.
