Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience
- Editor: Burland, Karen
- Editor: Pitts, Stephanie
a worthy addition to the relatively sparse literature on audience psychology
Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience
- Editor: Burland, Karen
- Editor: Pitts, Stephanie
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a worthy addition to the relatively sparse literature on audience psychology
About
Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience 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. Whether enjoying a drink at a jazz gig, tweeting at a pop concert or suppressing a cough at a classical recital, audience experience is affected by motivation, performance quality, social atmosphere and group and personal identity. Drawing on the implications of these experiences and attitudes, the authors consider the question of what makes an audience, and argue convincingly for the practical and academic value of that question.
Contents
- Contents: Prelude. Section 1 Before The Event: Preparing and Anticipating: Marketing live music, Daragh O'Reilly, Gretchen Larsen and Krzysztof Kubacki
- Musical, social and moral dilemmas: investigating audience motivations to attend concerts, Stephanie Pitts
- Safe and sound: audience experience in new venues for popular music performance, Robert Kronenburg. Section 2 During The Event: Listening and Connecting: Interlude - audience members as researchers, Stephanie Pitts and Karen Burland
- The value of 'being there': how the live experience measures quality for the audience, Jennifer Radbourne, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow
- In the heat of the moment: audience real time response to music and dance performance, Catherine J. Stevens, Roger T. Dean, Kim Vincs and Emery Schubert
- Texting and tweeting at live music concerts: flow, fandom and connecting with other audiences through mobile phone technology, Lucy Bennett
- Moving the gong: exploring the contexts of improvisation and composition, Karen Burland and Luke Windsor (with Christophe de Bezenac, Matthew Bourne, Petter Frost Fadnes and Nick Katuszonek)
- Context, cohesion and community: characteristics of festival audience members' strong experiences with music, Sidsel Karlsen
- Interlude - lasting memories of ephemeral events, Karen Burland and Stephanie Pitts
- 'The gigs I've gone to': mapping memories and places of live music, Sara Cohen
- Warts and all: recording the live music experience, Paul Long
- Staying behind: explorations in post-performance musician-audience dialogue, Melissa C. Dobson and John Sloboda. Postlude, Karen Burland and Stephanie Pitt. References
- Index.
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a worthy addition to the relatively sparse literature on audience psychology
