The sociological literature on creativity would suggest that collaboration between newcomers and more experienced members of an art world results in the fruitful combination of novelty and usefulness, though not without some conflict. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with workers from the popular recording industry (rock/pop) in New York City, this article extends the literature on creativity as collective action by showing how three types of intergenerational tensions (aesthetic, technological, and career) are embedded in the ways newcomers and experienced workers see themselves and each other as agents of change and stasis. I propose a new variable—leveraging age—a mechanism intergenerational collaborators use to resolve or override these tensions to ultimately maximize creativity in group contexts. Leveraging age, as a form of knowledge extraction, occurs in creative bureaucratic organizations and describes how newcomers and experienced workers dualistically draw on each other’s respective strengths (novelty and tradition). I primarily examine the bottom-up part of this process—how experienced workers draw on the insights of newcomers—by analyzing five leveraging-youth practices, which vary by level of formality and intentionality, but mostly limit the interactional challenges between the two groups.

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利用青年：克服创意生产中的代际张力

关于创造力的社会学文献表明，新来者和艺术界经验丰富的成员之间的合作可以带来新颖性和实用性的卓有成效的结合，尽管并非没有冲突。通过实地考察和对纽约市流行唱片业（摇滚/流行音乐）工作者的采访，本文通过展示三种类型的代际张力（美学，技术和职业）是如何嵌入的，扩展了关于创造性作为集体行动的文献。以新人和经验丰富的工人的方式将自己和彼此视为变革和停滞的动力。我提出了一个新的变量-利用年龄-代际合作者用来解决或消除这些紧张关系的机制，以最终在群体情境中最大程度地发挥创造力。利用年龄，作为知识提取的一种形式，它发生在富有创意的官僚组织中，并描述了新来者和经验丰富的工人如何双重借鉴彼此的各自优势（新颖性和传统）。我主要研究此过程的自下而上部分（经验丰富的工人如何利用新来者的见识），通过分析五种青年化实践，这些实践因形式和意图的程度而异，但主要限制了这两个群体之间的交互挑战。