Urban Music and Entrepreneurship

This book employs the inherent contradictions and questions that emerge from an exploration of the Grime music scene to build a complex reading of the socio-economic significance of urban music, and to disrupt the accepted definition of NEET as a site of immobility and inactivity.

Part I: Foundations
Setting the Scene
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2: Grime in the City: Kinship and Belonging
Part II: Creative Enterprise as Social Practice
Chapter 3. Artist / Entrepreneurs: Working for Love and Money
Chapter 4. Business Studies from 'The Ends': Learning the Rules of the Game
Part III: Crossing Borders
Chapter 5. Enterprise Abroad: A Case Study from Ayia Napa
Chapter 6. Crossing Borders, Moving On: The Urban Music Economy as a Transformative Realm
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 7. The Wrap Up: Entrepreneurship in the Urban Music Economy
Appendix 1: The Research Sample
Appendix 2: Reflections on Method