Interpretive Labor

Auteur
Kirsten Speyer Carithers is Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Louisville, where she specializes in music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Research and teaching interests include music and technology, experimentalism, ludomusicology, and the connections between indeterminacy, improvisation, and creative labor. Carithers has published in Contemporary Music Review, the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and the Journal of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.

Résumé
Interpretive Labor: Experimental Music at Work introduces and develops author Kirsten Carithers's theory of Interpretive Labor, based on examples from the postwar Euro-American avant-garde and other forms of experimentalism. The book also explores connections between music and labor in the neoliberal present to help us understand creative work more broadly.