Musicians and their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation

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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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Foreword: Audiencing Acknowledgments Introduction to musicians and their audiences Part 1 Conceptualising the audience–performer engagement 1 In the body of the audience 2 Observing musicians/audience interaction in North Indian classical music performance 3 ‘One step above the ornamental greenery’: a survivor’s guide to playing to an audience who does not listen Part 2 Live relationships: negotiations of performance 4 Contemporary British jazz musicians’ relationship with the audience: renditions of we-relations and intersubjectivity 5 Performer-audience interaction in live concerts: ritual or conversation? 6 Refiguring Maltese heritage through musical performance: audience complicity and the role of venues in Etnika’s stage shows Part 3 Technological mediations: the virtual and the material 7 Authenticity and liveness in digital DJ performance 8 That’s me in the spotlight: audiences and musicians on screen 9 ‘Soon you’ll wish they would shut up!’: the digitised political voices of music stars and their audiences in recession Greece Part 4 Off-stage discourses and the power of fandom 10 ‘Where are the girls of the old brigade?’: Vesta Tilley and her female audience in correspondence 11 From secret fantasies to social systems: re-reading Starlust as a portrait of the dedicated popular music audience Afterword: ‘Moved to the point where she could no longer contain herself’: Ellington and audience interaction at the Newport Jazz Festival Bibliography Index