Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music

Negotiating the Experimental and the Accessible in a High Art Subculture
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-69681-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Audience Research

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

Through analysing how existing audience members experience live contemporary classical music, this book seeks to make data-informed contributions to future discussions on audience diversity and accessibility. The author takes a multidimensional view of audience experience, looking at how sociodemographic factors and the frames of social context and concert format shape aesthetic responses and experiences in the concert hall. The book presents quantitative and qualitative audience data collected at twelve concerts in ten different European countries, analysing general trends alongside case studies. It also offers the first large-scale comparisons between the concert experiences and tastes of contemporary classical and classical music audiences.

Contemporary classical music is critically discussed as a ‘high art subculture’ rife with contradictions and conflicts around its cultural value. This book sheds light on how audiences negotiate the tensions between experimentalism and accessibility that currently define this genre. It provides insights relevant to academics from audience research in the performing arts and from musicology, as well as to institutions, practitioners and artists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emerson, Gina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Partituren, Autographen, Libretti, Liederbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.