Musicians and their Audiences

<p>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.</p>