The Professional Dance Musician and His Audience
Members of service occupations are subject to the interference of clients at their work. In the meeting of a professional whose self is deeply involved in his work and a more casually involved customer conflict arises from the professional's feeling that outsiders neither are capable nor posses the right to judge their performance. Dance musicians feel themselves to be different from their audiences-people who lack understanding and who should have no control over their work but in fact exert great control. Musicians feel isolated from society and increase this isolation through a process of self-segregation.