Popular music and producing collectivities: the challenges of audience research in contemporary musicology
In this paper I deal with the ways in which the audience functions as a means of producing collectivities. I define audience as a material body that is a carrier of affective potential in a certain time and space. Taking Yugoslav popular music as an example, i.e. the concerts of performers...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Muzikologija |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2015/1450-98141518099P.pdf |
| Summary: | In this paper I deal with the ways in which the audience functions as a means
of producing collectivities. I define audience as a material body that is a
carrier of affective potential in a certain time and space. Taking Yugoslav
popular music as an example, i.e. the concerts of performers from the
territory of former Yugoslavia, I analyse two crucial issues: the audience at
popular music concerts in Belgrade in the period after the dissolution of
Yugoslavia, and the audience that is created virtually through social
networks. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-9814 2406-0976 |