Destined for Greatness: Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in by Michael Ramirez

By Michael Ramirez

Pursuing the dream of a musical vocation—particularly in rock music—is in general considered as a youngster pipedream. tune is marked as a suitable relaxation task, yet person who might be discarded upon getting into maturity. How then do many women and men aspire to forge careers in song upon getting into adulthood? 

In Destined for Greatness, sociologist Michael Ramirez examines the lives of forty-eight autonomous rock musicians who hunt down such non-normative offerings in a faculty city well known for its track scene. He explores the wealthy lifestyles direction trajectories of girls and males to discover the level to which pathways are dependent to permit a few, yet now not all, participants to style careers in tune worlds. Ramirez indicates a extra nuanced figuring out of things that permit the pursuit of musical livelihoods good into maturity.  
 

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