Creating the right ‘vibe’ : emotional labour and musical performance in the recording studio
Cultural studies ; Emotion ; England ; Labour ; London ; Materiality ; Music ; Performativity ; Space ; United Kingdom
In this paper the AA. focus on how music producers and recording engineers in studios in London perform emotional labour as part of the performative engineering of this musical creativity and performance. Firstly, they consider how producers
consumption and substance abuse. They conclude by arguing that recording studios are emotional spaces in which producers and engineers regulate their own emotions by way of managing the emotions of musicians and recording artists as they perform.