On Sunday, February 15, the symposium will feature a panel titled From Gig Economy to Cultural Infrastructure: Rethinking Musical Labor, Value, and Community Power brings together artists, organizers, educators, and technologists to examine how musical labor is structured today; and how it might be transformed. The panel features Grammy-nominated artist and producer Terrany Johnson, whose […]
Presented in collaboration with the University of Texas College of Fine Arts and Prosper XO, with Professor Sonia Seeman (Butler School of Music, UT Austin) serving as Lead Curator, this two-day symposium examines the realities of musical labor in the contemporary “gig economy” and the structural conditions shaping the lives of working musicians today. This […]
Part Two centers Austin itself, a globally celebrated “music city” grappling with the lived realities of artist instability, rising costs, and uneven institutional support. This Town Hall highlights research connected to the Support Austin Musicians project and broader scholarship on music, labor, and cultural policy. The discussion examines how local economies, public institutions, and policy […]