
Musicians and their Audiences
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How do musicians play and talk to audiences? Why do audiences listen and what happens when they talk back? How do new (and old) technologies affect this interplay? This book presents a long overdue examination of the turbulent relationship between musicians and audiences. Focusing on a range of areas as diverse as Ireland, Greece, India, Malta, the US, and China, the contributors bring musicological, sociological, psychological, and anthropological approaches to the interaction between performers, fans, and the industry that mediates them. The four parts of the book each address a different stage of the relationship between musicians and audiences, showing its processual nature: from conceptualisation to performance, and through mediation to off-stage discourses. The musician/audience conceptual division is shown, throughout the book, to be as problematic as it is persistent.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction to musicians and their audiences
part |2 pages
Part 1 Conceptualising the audience–performer engagement
chapter 2|16 pages
Observing musicians/audience interaction in North Indian classical music performance
chapter 3|17 pages
‘One step above the ornamental greenery’: a survivor’s guide to playing to an audience who does not listen
part |2 pages
Part 2 Live relationships: negotiations of performance
chapter 4|17 pages
Contemporary British jazz musicians’ relationship with the audience: renditions of we-relations and intersubjectivity
chapter 5|19 pages
Performer-audience interaction in live concerts: ritual or conversation?
chapter 6|16 pages
Refiguring Maltese heritage through musical performance: audience complicity and the role of venues in Etnika’s stage shows
part |2 pages
Part 3 Technological mediations: the virtual and the material
chapter 9|14 pages
‘Soon you’ll wish they would shut up!’: the digitised political voices of music stars and their audiences in recession Greece
part |2 pages
Part 4 Off-stage discourses and the power of fandom