Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience

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Chapter 1 Prelude, Stephanie Pitts, Karen Burland
Before the Event
Chapter 2 Marketing Live Music, Daragh O’Reilly, Gretchen Larsen, Krzysztof Kubacki
Chapter 3 Musical, Social and Moral Dilemmas, Stephanie Pitts
Chapter 4 Safe and Sound, Robert Kronenburg
During the Event
Chapter 5 Interlude – Audience Members as Researchers, Stephanie Pitts, Karen Burland
Chapter 6 The Value of ‘Being There’, Jennifer Radbourne, Katya Johanson, Hilary Glow
Chapter 7 In the Heat of the Moment, Catherine J. Stevens, Roger T. Dean, Kim Vincs, Emery Schubert
Chapter 8 Texting and Tweeting at Live Music Concerts, Lucy Bennett
Chapter 9 Moving the Gong, Karen Burland, Luke Windsor, Christophe de Bézenac, Matthew Bourne, Petter Frost Fadnes, Nick Katuszonek
Chapter 10 Context, Cohesion and Community, Sidsel Karlsen
Chapter 11 Interlude – Lasting Memories of Ephemeral Events, Karen Burland, Stephanie Pitts
Chapter 12 ‘The Gigs I’ve Gone To’, Sara Cohen
Chapter 13 Warts and All, Paul Long
Chapter 14 Staying Behind, Melissa C. Dobson, John Sloboda
Chapter 15 Postlude, Karen Burland, Stephanie Pitts

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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.

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Opera Today

a worthy addition to the relatively sparse literature on audience psychology

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