What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?
(2014)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2014, April). What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?. Paper presented at Studying Music: An International Conference in Honour of Simon Frith, University of Edinburgh
The sociology of popular music has tended to eschew conventional musicological approaches and instead to locate the listening experience as one rooted in social uses and pleasures. Where musicological analysis is employed, it tends to reinforce the... Read More about What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?.