Study of Concert Musicians in New York and Chicago (c. 1988)

Investigator: Samuel Gilmore

Population: Musicians

Identification method: Unavailable in works and secondary sources reviewed (Sociological Abstracts AN88U0130 and AN88T6146).

Sampling procedure: Unavailable in works and secondary source reviewed.

N and Response rate: Chicago, N=30; New York, N=67. Response rate unavailable in works and secondary source reviewed.

Publication: Gilmore, Samuel. 1988. "Schools of Activity and Innovation." Sociological Quarterly, 29(2): 203-219.

Gilmore, Samuel. 1987. "Coordination and Convention: The Organization of the Concert World." Symbolic Interaction; 1987, 10, 2, fall, 209-227.

Summary: Gilmore (1988) focused on organizational processes in the production of concert music. Gilmore (1987) examined collaborative work organized through the interdependent activities of composition and performance that are routinely coordinated to produce concerts.