The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1628925558 ISBN 13 : 9781628925555

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century.

This volume offers interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass audience, recollections of the giants of late twentieth century music in performance, and critiques of latter-day pretenders to the throne. The authors track the evolution of the arena concert, consider design and architecture, celebrity and fashion, and turn to feminism, ethnographic research, and ideas of humour, liveness and authenticity, in order to explore and frame the arena concert.

The arena concert becomes the real time centre of a global digital network, and the gig-goer pays not only for an immersion in (and, indeed, role in) its spectacular nature, but also for a close encounter with the performers, in this contained and exalted space. The spectacular nature of the arena concert raises challenges that have yet to be fully technologically overcome, and has given rise to a reinvention of what live music actually means.

Love it or loathe it, the arena concert is a major presence in the cultural landscape of the 21st century. This volume finds out why.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dr Robert Edgar is Head of the MA programmes in Film and Documentary at York St John University, UK.
Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs is Lecturer in Media and Performance in the School of Arts and Media at The University of Salford, UK.
Dr Benjamin Halligan is the Director of Postgraduate Research Studies for the College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Salford, UK.
Dr Nicola Spelman is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Salford, UK.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic USA
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1628925558
• ISBN 13: 9781628925555
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352