While anxiety is generally explained using an individualistic and biological framework, this article contributes to sociological approaches to emotions, considering anxiety as being triggered by social structural conditions, such as, in the case studied here, an outcome of precariousness faced by musicians in the music industries. Confronted by unbearable forms of anxiety triggered by an uncertainty encompassing all aspects of life, participants struggle to secure ontological security. Although experienced individually, the article reveals (1) how the disadvantages and exclusions associated with gender and class background are unevenly distributed, ultimately triggering different forms of anxieties; and (2) how emotions are differently managed depending on these social variables. Methodologically, the article presents an original study looking at the working lives of semi-professional musicians aged 25–37, based in Paris (France), Brooklyn, San Francisco and Portland (United States), Stockholm (Sweden) and Reykjavík (Iceland). Often considered as being at the forefront of precarious working lives in previous literature, cultural workers embody the current transformation of the psychosocial impact of contemporary precarity. Ultimately, this article argues for a repoliticisation of emotions, considering them as cultural realities and not ‘just’ idiosyncrasies.

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对焦虑的社会学解释：独立音乐家的不稳定、阶级和性别


虽然焦虑通常是用个人主义和生物学框架来解释的，但本文对情绪的社会学方法做出了贡献，认为焦虑是由社会结构条件引发的，例如，在这里研究的案例中，音乐家在音乐中面临不稳定的结果行业。面对生活各方面的不确定性引发的难以忍受的焦虑，参与者努力确保本体论的安全。尽管是个人经历，但文章揭示了：（1）与性别和阶级背景相关的劣势和排斥如何分布不均，最终引发不同形式的焦虑； （2）如何根据这些社会变量对情绪​​进行不同的管理。从方法上来说，本文提出了一项原创研究，着眼于巴黎（法国）、布鲁克林、旧金山和波特兰（美国）、斯德哥尔摩（瑞典）和雷克雅未克（冰岛）的 25 至 37 岁半职业音乐家的工作生活。在以往的文献中，文化工作者通常被认为是处于不稳定工作生活的最前沿，他们体现了当代不稳定的社会心理影响的转变。最终，本文主张将情感重新政治化，将其视为文化现实，而不仅仅是“特质”。