...is wholly leisure, and about the amateur side of jazz. Music as Serious Leisure Serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or...centred on acquiring and expressing its special skills, knowledge, and experience. Amateurs, who perform the same activities as their professional counterparts,...

...to the extent that their deviance has become a way of life. Stebbins defines serious leisure as: 'a systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist or volunteer activity that participants find so substantial, interesting and challenging, that they often launch themselves on a career centered on acquiring and...

...activity intense and doubly intense leisure, which I define as serious leisure. Serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or...participants find so substantial and interesting that, in the typical case, they launch themselves on a career centered on acquiring and expressing its special...

...seems to have become the standard abbreviated definition of this type of activity. Serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or...participants find so substantial and interesting that, in the typical case, they launch themselves on a career centered on acquiring and expressing its special...

...volunteer activity that participants find so substantial and interesting that, in the typical case, they launch themselves on a career centred on acquiring and expressing its special skills, knowledge and experience. Stebbins provides examples of what he perceives as casual and serious leisure:...

...their tendency to participate in community improvement activities. serious leisure: serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an ^amateur, ^hobbyist,...*volunteer activity that participants find so substantial, interesting, and fulfilling (""fulfillment) that, in the typical case, they launch themselves on a...

...Commission on Education defined serious leisure as "the systematic pursuit of deep satisfaction through an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity that participants find so substantial and interesting that, in the typical case, they launch themselves on a (nonwork) career centered on acquiring and expressing...

...advanced by Stebbins (1982). Serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an amateur, a hobbyist, or a volunteer activity that participants find so substantial...interesting that they launch themselves on a career centered on acquiring and expressing its special skills, knowledge, and experience (Stebbins 1992 )....