When conventions change, how do cultural producers respond to new trends in heteronomous fields? Established artists in heteronomous fields will be supplanted by newer styles created by new entrants to the field. Market-oriented artists must bend to changing conventions rather than keep to the kinds of cohesive trajectories that shape restricted field careers. Regardless of whether established cultural producers like or appreciate changing conventions in their field, they must respond to emergent movements, norms, ideas, and styles in their own work. Using interviews with 40 commercially successful songwriters, I find that when faced with a new trend, songwriters who stay in the field accommodate new trends through strategic, habitual practices. By adapting to new aesthetic features of trends through “research” or mimicry and by adopting new, trendy artists into collaborative creative groups, established artists can successfully incorporate new trends into their creative labor. These practices allow artists to continue producing relevant creative work despite misalignment between new conventions and their own preferences. Attending to the ways that artists incorporate new aesthetic features and new collaborators into their work contributes an understanding of the everyday practices that lead to trend accommodation.

当惯例发生变化时，文化生产者如何应对他律领域的新趋势？他律领域的知名艺术家将被该领域的新进入者创造的新风格所取代。以市场为导向的艺术家必须屈从于不断变化的惯例，而不是固守那种塑造受限领域职业的有凝聚力的轨迹。无论成熟的文化生产者是否喜欢或欣赏其领域不断变化的惯例，他们都必须在自己的作品中对新兴的运动、规范、思想和风格做出反应。通过对 40 位商业上成功的词曲作者的采访，我发现当面对新趋势时，留在该领域的词曲作者会通过战略性的、习惯性的实践来适应新趋势。通过“研究”或模仿来适应趋势的新审美特征，并采用新的、新潮艺术家加入协作创意群体，成熟的艺术家可以成功地将新趋势融入他们的创作工作中。尽管新惯例与他们自己的偏好之间存在偏差，这些做法使艺术家能够继续创作相关的创意作品。关注艺术家将新的美学特征和新的合作者融入他们的作品的方式有助于理解导致趋势适应的日常实践。