All Outputs (160)

Listening to 'difficult albums': specialist music fans and the popular avant-garde (2012)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2012). Listening to 'difficult albums': specialist music fans and the popular avant-garde. Popular Music, 31, 347-361. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143012000281

Difficulty is most often associated, not with popular music, but with the avant-garde. How do popular music listeners listen to albums that present compositional, performance or conceptual elements from the avant-garde? This paper explores where di... Read More about Listening to 'difficult albums': specialist music fans and the popular avant-garde.

Separate, supplementary or seamless? Alternative media and professional journalism. (2012)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2012). Separate, supplementary or seamless? Alternative media and professional journalism. In M. Broersma, & C. Peters (Eds.), Rethinking Journalism: Trust and Participation in a Transformed Media Landscape, 131-143. Routledge

Genre and the cultural politics of territory: the live experience of free improvisation (2012)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2012). Genre and the cultural politics of territory: the live experience of free improvisation. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15, 427-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549412442671

This paper is concerned with the relationship between performers and audiences in the live performance of popular music, a relationship that is examined through the concept of genre culture and a microsociological study of improvised music as a terri... Read More about Genre and the cultural politics of territory: the live experience of free improvisation.

Do we still need rock journalists? The histories, values and prospects of writing about rock music (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2012, February). Do we still need rock journalists? The histories, values and prospects of writing about rock music. Presented at MARS (Music, Assembly, Research, Showbusiness)

Fan discourse and the construction of noise music as a genre (2011)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2011). Fan discourse and the construction of noise music as a genre. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 23, 324-342

Recent theoretical interest in Noise has drawn attention to the difficulties of making sense of it as a musical practice. Various claims have been made: Noise challenges the entire history of musical codes; it represents the end of music; it is a ne... Read More about Fan discourse and the construction of noise music as a genre.

New media and journalism practice in Africa: An agenda for research (2011)
Journal Article
Atton, C., & Mabweazara, H. (2011). New media and journalism practice in Africa: An agenda for research. Journalism, 12(6), 667-673. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884911405467

Special issue of Journalism: theory, practice and criticism 2011

Big noise, little worlds: genre and the cultural politics of territory in the live experience of “extreme” music. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2011, March). Big noise, little worlds: genre and the cultural politics of territory in the live experience of “extreme” music. Paper presented at The business of live music, University of Edinburgh

'Our semi-imaginary galaxy’: how fanzines write about popular music. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2011, March). 'Our semi-imaginary galaxy’: how fanzines write about popular music

Audiences as journalists: problems and positions. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2011, February). Audiences as journalists: problems and positions

Alternative media and professional journalism: separatism or supplementarity? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2011, February). Alternative media and professional journalism: separatism or supplementarity?

Anarchist media. (2010)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2010). Anarchist media. In J. D. H. Downing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (43-48). SAGE Publications

Activist media as mainstream model: what can professional journalists learn from Indymedia? (2010)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2010). Activist media as mainstream model: what can professional journalists learn from Indymedia?. In B. Franklin, & M. Carlson (Eds.), Journalists, Sources and Credibility: New Perspectives, 61-75. Routledge

Alternative Media. (2010)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2010). Alternative Media. In J. D. H. Downing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (15-20). SAGE Publications

Zines (2010)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2010). Zines. In J. D. H. Downing (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (565-567). SAGE Publications

In search of cultural politics in a Fall fanzine. (2010)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2010). In search of cultural politics in a Fall fanzine. In M. Goddard, & B. Halligan (Eds.), Mark E. Smith and the Fall: Art, Music and Politics (169-180). Ashgate Publishing

Popular music fanzines: genre, aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation” (2010)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2010). Popular music fanzines: genre, aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation”. Popular Music and Society, 33, 517-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007761003694316

Research into fanzines has tended to locate them as subcultural artefacts whose significance is found in their symbolic fit with the subculture responsible for producing them. As a consequence, fanzines have mostly been interpreted homologically as... Read More about Popular music fanzines: genre, aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation”.

Counterculture, Opposition and Incorporation. (2010)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2010). Counterculture, Opposition and Incorporation. Huck, 38-39

The journalism of Diaspora: ethics, production and audiences. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2010, September). The journalism of Diaspora: ethics, production and audiences. Presented at Journalism of Diaspora Symposium, University of Lincoln

Managing your part-time supervisor. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2010, September). Managing your part-time supervisor. Presented at Vitae Part-time Researcher Conference, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh

A history of user-generated content: problems and positions. [presented in absentia] (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (2010, June). A history of user-generated content: problems and positions. [presented in absentia]. Presented at User-Generated Content: Historical Perspectives on the Participation of Audiences in Social Communication, European Communication Re