Coughing and clapping : Investigating audience experience /
edited by Karen Burland and Stephanie Pitts.
- Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014.
- xxii, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music. .
- SEMPRE studies in the psychology of music .
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.