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Musicians and their Audiences
Author: Ioannis Tsioulakis
language: en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date: 2016-12-19
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.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures
Fans constitute a very special kind of audience. They have been marginalized, ridiculed and stigmatized, yet at the same time they seem to represent the vanguard of new relationships with and within the media. ’Participatory culture’ has become the new normative standard. Concepts derived from early fan studies, such as transmedial storytelling and co-creation, are now the standard fare of journalism and marketing text books alike. Indeed, usage of the word fan has become ubiquitous. The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures problematizes this exaltation of fans and offers a comprehensive examination of the current state of the field. Bringing together the latest international research, it explores the conceptualization of ’the fan’ and the significance of relationships between fans and producers, with particular attention to the intersection between online spaces and offline places. The twenty-two chapters of this volume elucidate the key themes of the fan studies vernacular. As the contributing authors draw from recent empirical work around the globe, the book provides fresh insights and innovative angles on the latest developments within fan cultures, both online and offline. Because the volume is specifically set up as companion for researchers, the chapters include recommendations for the further study of fan cultures. As such, it represents an essential reference volume for researchers and scholars in the fields of cultural and media studies, communication, cultural geography and the sociology of culture.
Whirlpool of Shadows
Nasiruddin Haider, the Nawab of Awadh, had always had problems with his hair. Whatever he did, it contrived to remain as flat and straight as ever, like the fringe of silken tapestry. When an English barber turned up at court and offered to curl the royal locks, the King opened his heart to him. Knowing the King's weakness for all things British, the barber decided to replace the queen with a choice of his own. In this way, a beautiful young Englishwomen found herself the consort of an Indian King.In Paris, an unhappy actress is sent a biography by her agent. The book is the story of a young Englishwoman, the wife of the Nawab of Awadh. Forgetting her sadness the actress reads on.