Musicians and their Audiences Performance, Speech and Mediation

• Other Authors: Tsioulakis, Ioannis (Editor), Hytönen-Ng, Elina (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: LONDON Routledge 2017
• Edition: Conference publication : English
• Subjects: Musicology; Fan; Interaction; Psychologie
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• Item Description: Conference publication, Internet resource
• Physical Description: xiv, 226 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781472456939

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.