Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies, a field which has, over the past ten years, seen a steady growth in publications that examine the history of live music venues and promoters, the economics of the live music industry, and the operations of the sector.
- Filled with contributions from world-leading academics and practitioners, from a variety of backgrounds and countries.
- Highly interdisciplinary overview of live music, which will be relevant to professionals and students interested in music business, music technology, music production and performance.
- Includes papers on cutting-edge issues, such as augmented reality and virtual reality.
Chris Anderton is Associate Professor in Cultural Economy at Solent University, Southampton. He is the author of Music Festivals in the UK: Beyond the Carnivalesque (2019) and co-author of both Understanding the Music Industries (2013) and Music Management, Marketing and PR: Creating Connections and Conversations (forthcoming). He is also co-editor of Media Narratives in Popular Music (forthcoming) and has guest edited issues of the journals Rock Music Studies and Arts and the Market.
Sergio Pisfil is a Lecturer and researcher at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. His PhD, gained at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Simon Frith, focused on the history of live sound and its connections to rock music between 1967 and 1973. His research interests include live music, and the history and esthetics of popular music. His work has been published in various edited collections, including The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research, Gender in Music Production, and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Progressive Rock; and in journals such as Popular Music and Society and Communiquer (forthcoming). He is currently guest editing a special issue on live music for the journal Arts and the Market.
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Live Music Studies in Perspective
Chris Anderton and Sergio Pisfil
PART I: Promotion
Steve Waksman
Danny Hagan
Pat O'Grady
Patryk Galuszka
Chris Anderton
PART II: Production
Christopher James Dahlie, Jos Mulder, Sergio Pisfil, and Nick Reeder
Glyn Davis
Gabrielle Kielich
Kimi Karki
Part III: Consumption
Loic Riom
Kenny Forbes
Andy Bennett
Stephen Loy
Part IV: Policy
Christina Ballico and Dave Carter
Adam Behr
Sarah Lahasky
Gerome Guibert, Michael Spanu, and Catherine Rudent
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