Summary: Collaborations: creative partnerships in music | Geoff King <strong>When the music’s over: Collaboration gone wrong</strong> In those genres of popular music where the ‘group’ has a central role, collaboration is, of course, at the heart of the group process. This is something difficult to maintain in a constructive manner when many forces are interacting: the personal, the creative and the industrial. So, what happens when the relationships within such collaborative units go wrong? What is the outcome for the individual musicians and the remaining members? Using the three fields (the personal, the creative, the industrial) this paper will examine the factors that led to the end of some successful collaborations drawing on interviews with a number of Melbourne musicians.
