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    Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen

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    ISBN: 9781908906403
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    AuthorMahfouz, Sabrina
    Pub Date03/10/2019
    BindingPaperback
    Pages192
    Publisher: The Westbourne Press
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    An urgent and empowering collection of writings and artworks by working class artists in the UK

    Working-class artists continue to be hugely underrepresented in the arts industries, though they make up a third of the British population. These professions are already notoriously hard to get into, but working class artists face extra
    challenges, from unpaid work reinforcing social disparity, to prejudice. How do we break this cycle
    of inequality in the arts?

    In Smashing It, leading musicians, playwrights, visual artists, filmmakers and writers share how they overcame obstacles, from the financial to the philosophical, to make it in the arts. Edited by acclaimed poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz, it celebrates the achievements of working class artists in Britain, from the global takeover of Grime musicians to the literary powerhouses
    pushing representative narratives, and empowers those who will be a part of tomorrow's cultural landscape.

    Includes a guide section on how to make it in the arts, and contributions from Kerry Hudson, DJ Target, Riz Ahmed, Bridget Minamore, Anthony Anaxagorou, Salena Godden, Madani Younis and Bryony Kimmings, among others.