Study of Freelance Musicians in Washington D.C. (c. 1988)

Investigators: Jon Frederickson and James Rooney

Population: Free-lance musicians defined as those professionally trained artists who lack permanent membership in any musical organization.

Identification method: Unavailable in work and secondary source reviewed (Sociological Abstracts AN 88U0128).

Sampling procedure: Unavailable in work and secondary source reviewed.

N and Response rate: Unavailable in work and secondary source reviewed.

Publication: Frederickson, Jon and James Rooney. 1988. "The Free-Lance Musician as a Type of Non-Person: An Extension of the Concept of Non-Personhood." Sociological Quarterly, 29(2): 221-239.

Summary: The study examined characteristics and experiences of free-lance musicians in order to determine whether Erving Goffman's conception of ‘nonpersonhood’ can occur among more than just occupations of limited skill.