Behind the Peake

Composing Capital with Marianna Ritchey


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Dr. Greg Stuart interviews Dr. Marianna Ritchey about her book Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era (Chicago, 2019). They discuss the ways in which the current neoliberal regime uses classical music to serve its institutional structures and goals, and how artists and composers align themselves with the free market ideology. Ritchey shows us how, by blurring the line between creativity and entrepreneurship, current classical music serves capitalism and suggests a way forward in which music can divorce itself from its role as commodity. 

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Behind the PeakeBy University of South Carolina School of Music