Remembering Chet: Theorizing the mythology of the self-destructive bohemian artist as self-producer and self-consumer in the market for romanticism

Marketing Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-136

  Bradshaw, Alan ^a   Holbrook, Morris B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

artist bohemia; jazz; Key Words; musician; mythology; Romanticism; self consumer; self destruction; self producer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992779501     PISSN: 14705931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470593107076861     Document Type: Article

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