IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-01505192.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Silenced musicians. The major labels' discursive work in the reproduction of the institutional order

Author

Listed:
  • Isabelle Huault

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Antoine Blanc

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

We examine in this paper the issue of how institutions are maintained and the role of agency in this process. We investigate more specifically the efforts of actors to maintain the institutional order through discourse. We approach this issue through an in-depth and longitudinal study of actors' efforts to maintain institutions in the French Music Industry from 2004 to today. Our study focuses on the discursive work of some actors in fixing meaning about artists and then maintaining institutions. To do this, we resort to a discourse analysis and more particularly to a lexicometric study. We contribute to the study of institutional maintenance in two ways. First, we argue that maintaining institutions is the outcome of agency and not an automatic or a mechanical mimetic process. Secondly, we demonstrate the reproduction of institutions through discourse.

Suggested Citation

  • Isabelle Huault & Antoine Blanc, 2009. "Silenced musicians. The major labels' discursive work in the reproduction of the institutional order," Post-Print hal-01505192, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01505192
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01505192. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.