Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music - Negotiating the Experimental and the Accessible in a High Art Subculture

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevancy of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Professor Stephanie Pitts
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Conceptualising and Researching Audience Experience
Chapter 3: Contemporary Classical Music and its Audiences
Chapter 4: Who and Why? Demographics and Motivations to Attend
Chapter 5: CCM as High Art Subculture: Audience Tastes and Perceptions
Chapter 6: The Social and the Aesthetic I: Musical Expertise and Experiences with Live CCM
Chapter 7: The Social and the Aesthetic II: Aesthetic Experience and CCM
Chapter 8: CCM and Audience Participation: A Case Study
Chapter 9: Institution–Audience Relationships in CCM Culture
Chapter 10: ‘Written without regard to the audience’: Classical Music Attendees on CCM
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Appendix 1: Methodological Appendix
Appendix 2: Survey Questionnaires
Appendix 3: Supplementary Tables
Appendix 4: Supplementary Figures
Appendix 5: Full List of Works Performed at the Survey Concerts
Index

About the author

Dr. Gina Emerson is a musicologist and curator. Her research explores and connects the topics of audience experience, sustainability and cultural participation in art music contexts. She is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate at the IASS Potsdam in the Art-Science Cooperations for Sustainability group.

Summary

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevancy of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music.

Product details

• Authors: Gina Emerson
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9780367696849
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69684-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Audience Research
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, Music, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, ART / General, MUSIC / Printed Music / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, MUSIC / Essays, Theatre Studies, Theory of music & musicology, Literary essays, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials, Musical scores, lyrics & libretti, Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, The arts: general topics, Western "classical" music