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Coughing and clapping : Investigating audience experience / edited by Karen Burland and Stephanie Pitts.

Contributor(s): Burland, Karen | Pitts, Stephanie.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SEMPRE studies in the psychology of music: Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014Description: xxii, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Concerts -- Psychological aspects | Music audiencesDDC classification: 780.78
Contents:
Prelude -- Section 1: Before the event: preparing and anticipating --Marketing live music -- Musical, social and moral dilemmas: investigating audience motivations to attend concerts -- Safe and sound: audience experience in new venues for popular music performance -- Section 2: During the event -- Interlude: audience members as researchers -- The value of 'being there': how the live experience measures quality for the audience -- In the heat of the moment: audience real-time response to music and dance performance -- Texting and tweeting at live music concerts: flow, fandom and connecting with other audiences through mobile phone technology -- Moving the gong: exploring the contexts of improvisation and composition -- Context, cohesion and community:characteristics of festival audience members' strong experiences with music -- Interlude -- lasting memories of ephemeral events -- 'The gigs I've gone to': mapping memories and places of live music -- Warts and all: recording the live music experience -- Staying behind: explorations in post-performance musician-audience dialogue -- Postlude.
Summary: This collection explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened. The book brings together international researchers who consider the experience of being an audience member from a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives and the question of what makes an audience, arguing convincingly for the practical and academic value of that question.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude -- Section 1: Before the event: preparing and anticipating --Marketing live music -- Musical, social and moral dilemmas: investigating audience motivations to attend concerts -- Safe and sound: audience experience in new venues for popular music performance -- Section 2: During the event -- Interlude: audience members as researchers -- The value of 'being there': how the live experience measures quality for the audience -- In the heat of the moment: audience real-time response to music and dance performance -- Texting and tweeting at live music concerts: flow, fandom and connecting with other audiences through mobile phone technology -- Moving the gong: exploring the contexts of improvisation and composition -- Context, cohesion and community:characteristics of festival audience members' strong experiences with music -- Interlude -- lasting memories of ephemeral events -- 'The gigs I've gone to': mapping memories and places of live music -- Warts and all: recording the live music experience -- Staying behind: explorations in post-performance musician-audience dialogue -- Postlude.

This collection explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened. The book brings together international researchers who consider the experience of being an audience member from a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives and the question of what makes an audience, arguing convincingly for the practical and academic value of that question.

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