“That's cool, you’re a musician and you drink”: Exploring entertainers’ accounts of their unique workplace relationship with alcohol

Forsyth, Alasdair; Lennox, Jemma C.; Emslie, Carol

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.07.001

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“…Three focused on young people including students [37][38][39], and two focused on individuals in midlife [40,41]. Lastly, one study focused on a specific occupation, looking at nightlife entertainers, and these participants were aged 20 to 49 years [42].…”

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“…In addition, one study reported the university was in England [33], and one study recruited from three universities in England and Wales [30]. Of the six nonstudent studies, three recruited participants from the west of Scotland [40][41][42], and one each in South East England [37] and South West England [39]. The remaining study reported that the 'vast majority' of participants resided in London [38].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We judged a study as being of higher quality if it scored 15 or more, and lower quality if scoring less than 15. Using this classification, six studies were of higher quality [32-34, 37, 40, 41] and seven were of lower quality [30,31,35,36,38,39,42]. A weight of evidence was then applied using these quality assessments, with greater weight given to studies of higher quality.…”

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“…However, stronger forms of peer pressure were not always necessary, with some individuals describing difficulties turning down drinks in response to more subtle forms of pressure. An evening entertainer from Forsyth et al's study [42] describes "People keep offering you drinks, particularly if you are playing, and I think if your band-mates are also drinking it's quite difficult you know to say 'oh no"'.…”

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Peer pressure and alcohol consumption in adults living in the UK: a systematic qualitative review

Morris¹,

Larsen²,

Catterall³

et al. 2020

BMC Public Health

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Background: Peer pressure to drink alcohol may influence excessive alcohol consumption, which can have adverse impacts on health and wellbeing. While peer pressure to drink alcohol is extensively studied among youth, less examination exists among adults. This systematic review examined qualitative research studies which explored the role and concept of peer pressure within the context of alcohol consumption in adults living in the UK. Methods: Qualitative studies which explored peer pressure within the context of alcohol consumption or alcohol related behaviours and views in adults (age range approximately 18-52 years) living in the UK were included. Systematic searches conducted in Medline, PsycINFO and Web of Science identified 1462 references, of which 13 studies met inclusion criteria. Thematic analysis was conducted. Results: Five overarching themes were identified. Four of these themes directly address aspects of peer pressure, including: experiences of peer pressure; consequences of peer pressure; strategies to deal with peer pressure; and conditions perceived to affect peer pressure. The fifth overarching theme explains the wider social context influencing peer pressure. Pressure to drink alcohol affects individuals across the life span and can be experienced as overt and aggressive, or subtle and friendly. Those consuming little or no alcohol are more likely to feel overt forms of peer pressure. Some developed strategies to cope with pressure from drinkers. Peer pressure can result in feelings of social isolation, or giving in by consuming alcohol against ones wishes. Conclusion: Peer pressure to drink alcohol is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon experienced across adulthood requiring better understanding to support initiatives to decrease the impact of pressure-inducing environments and develop strategies to deal with perceived pressure conditions.

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Section: Study Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Study Characteristicsmentioning

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Peer pressure and alcohol consumption in adults living in the UK: a systematic qualitative review

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Larsen²,

Catterall³

et al. 2020

BMC Public Health

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“…Bartenders work in environments that have been described as "affectively charged" (Duff, 2008), "intoxigenic" (Forsyth, Lennox, & Emslie, 2016) and with "liminal" properties (Hobbs, Hadfield, Lister, & Winlow, 2003;Tutenges, 2012). Drinking establishments are places that patrons visit to indulge in collective drinking, disinhibition and enjoyment.…”

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Bartenders as street-level bureaucrats: theorizing server practices in the nighttime economy

Buvik

Tutenges

2017

Addiction Research & Theory

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Most Western countries have laws that prohibit the serving of alcohol to intoxicated and underage patrons in nightlife venues such as pubs and nightclubs. Despite laws and the implementation of server training programs, several studies have shown that intoxicated patrons are still likely to be served. This think-piece article attempts to shed new light on the tendency among bartenders to overserve patrons. Based on a selective review of the literature, we argue that future research on bartenders is in need of theoretical development and guidance as well as more rigorous crossnational comparisons. We propose that Michael Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucrats can deepen our understanding of bartenders and their serving practices. Bartenders may be conceptualized as street-level bureaucrats whose jobs are characterized by continuous interactions with different citizens asking for their attention and services. We argue that, just like street-level bureaucrats, bartenders have to deal with numerous people and their demands, and must make swift decisions based on their own discretion. Bartenders are encouraged by their managers to sell as much as possible, but at the same time they are supposed to obey the law against overserving alcohol to intoxicated and underage patrons. Previous research provides many examples of how bartenders develop shortcuts and bend rules in order to make their jobs more manageable and deal with the contradictory pressures they experience. The paper provides theoretical tools to understand how and why bartenders develop routines that are different from those intended by policy makers.

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‘Losing Work, Losing Purpose’: Representations of Musicians’ Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19

Musgrave¹

2022

Music Business Research

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Driven by a growing academic and professional interest in the subject over recent years, discussions concerning the mental health and emotional wellbeing of musicians have been prevalent in popular media over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Much of the recent research into how musicians have coped emotionally during COVID-19 has been driven by the professional and charitable sectors. This chapter-building on work by Brunt and Nelligan (Media International Australia 178:42-46, 2021)-draws on media representations of the mental health of musicians based in the United Kingdom over the first year of the pandemic between March 2020 and March 2021, examining key themes from newspaper articles/ websites, online web seminars, musicians' own blogs and social media. It suggests that musicians' mental health challenges were broadly presented in two key ways: (1) employment-related anxieties concerning loss of income, how their work was being treated vis-à-vis self-employed income support and fears about their futures and (2) status-based existential anxiety relating to a loss of meaning in their lives. This duality has been encapsulated as losing work and losing purpose (Littlewood, HuffPost UK, 2020). The chapter concludes by interrogating what these anxieties tell us about how musicians and musical work are seen and understood.

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“That's cool, you’re a musician and you drink”: Exploring entertainers’ accounts of their unique workplace relationship with alcohol

Cited by 18 publications

References 31 publications

Peer pressure and alcohol consumption in adults living in the UK: a systematic qualitative review

Peer pressure and alcohol consumption in adults living in the UK: a systematic qualitative review

Bartenders as street-level bureaucrats: theorizing server practices in the nighttime economy

‘Losing Work, Losing Purpose’: Representations of Musicians’ Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19

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