Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article aims to analyze the career paths of concert musicians within the sociocultural context of Monterrey, Nuevo León. It seeks to highlight the efforts they make to maintain a professional identity in challenging regional environments characterized by a precarious labor market and an adverse sociocultural context. Based on a series of interviews with music professionals from diverse backgrounds and career paths in Monterrey, the qualitative research reveals how these musicians preserve their professional identity through personal commitment, specific skills, and the pursuit of employment opportunities both within and outside their primary field of work in a transitional labor and sociocultural context. This analysis broadens the social understanding of a sector of professionals immersed in processes of change, and how these impact their life trajectories.
Source: Frontera norte
DOI: 10.33679/rfn.v.e2416
Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4417467617