Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies.
Featuring paradigmatic case studies, this book is split into four parts, first addressing perspectives associated with production, then promotion and consumption, and finally policy. The contributors to the book draw on a range of methodological and theoretical positions to provide a critical resource that casts new light on live music processes and shows how live music events have become central to raising and discussing broader social and cultural issues. Their case studies expand our knowledge of how live music events work and extend beyond the familiar contexts of the United States and United Kingdom to include examples drawn from Argentina, Australia, France, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Poland.
Researching Live Music is the first comprehensive review of the different ways in which live music can be studied as an interdisciplinary field, including innovative approaches to the study of historic and contemporary live music events. It represents a crucial reading for professionals, students, and researchers working in all aspects of live music.
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Live Music Studies in Perspective
Chris Anderton and Sergio Pisfil
PART I: Promotion
Festivals, Free and Unfree: Alex Cooley and the American Rock Festival
Steve Waksman
As Long As They Go Home Safe: The Voice of the Independent Music Festival Promoter
Danny Hagan
Under the Cover of Darkness: Situating "Covers Gigs" within Live Music Ecologies
Pat O'Grady
Showcase Festivals as a Gateway to Foreign Markets
Patryk Galuszka
Disruption and Continuity: Covid-19, Live Music, and Cyclic Sociality
Chris Anderton
PART II: Production
Live Sound Matters
Christopher James Dahlie, Jos Mulder, Sergio Pisfil, and Nick Reeder
Mobile Spectacle: Es Devlin's Pandemonium Tour Design
Glyn Davis
Fulfilling the Hospitality Rider: Working Practices and Issues in a Tour's Supply Chain
Gabrielle Kielich
Vocaloid Liveness? Hatsune Miku and the Live Production of the Japanese Virtual Idol Concerts
Kimi Kärki
Part III: Consumption
Making Music Public: What Would a Sociology of Live Music Promotion Look Like?
Loïc Riom
Dead Stars Live: Exploring Holograms, Liveness, and Authenticity
Kenny Forbes
Live ... as You've Always Heard It Before: Classic Rock, Technology, and the Re-positioning of Authenticity in Live Music Performance
Andy Bennett
Approaching the Live from a Distance: The Unofficial Led Zeppelin Archive
Stephen Loy
Part IV: Policy
Music Cities, or Cities of Music?
Christina Ballico and Dave Carter
State of Play: Tensions and Interventions in Live Music Policy
Adam Behr
"Por Más Músicas Mujeres en Vivo!": The Live Music Female Quota Law and Its Implications for Argentine Music Festivals
Sarah Lahasky
Beyond Live Shows: Regulation and Innovation in the French Live Music Video Economy
Gérôme Guibert, Michaël Spanu, and Catherine Rudent
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