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Heritage Half Hour: Why musicians die in poverty – South African study reveal how they battle to make ends meet
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Why is it that many much-loved and renowned South African musicians can enjoy a lengthy and oftentimes lucrative career... but then decades later battle to make ends meet and die in poverty? Musicians’ dire financial circumstances are sometimes wrongly blamed on irresponsible spending; a musicians’ pension plan is often proposed as a solution.Gwen Ansell, music researcher and Research Associate of the Gordon Institute of Business Science
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195 episodes
Manage episode 425703381 series 2932050
Why is it that many much-loved and renowned South African musicians can enjoy a lengthy and oftentimes lucrative career... but then decades later battle to make ends meet and die in poverty? Musicians’ dire financial circumstances are sometimes wrongly blamed on irresponsible spending; a musicians’ pension plan is often proposed as a solution.Gwen Ansell, music researcher and Research Associate of the Gordon Institute of Business Science
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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