1st Edition
Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music Negotiating the Experimental and the Accessible in a High Art Subculture
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
Biography
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.
