All Outputs (62)

The Absent Presence of Progressive Rock in the British Music Press, 1968-1974 (2019)
Journal Article
Anderton, C., & Atton, C. (2020). The Absent Presence of Progressive Rock in the British Music Press, 1968-1974. Rock Music Studies, 7(1), 8-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/19401159.2019.1651521

The upsurge of academic interest in the genre known as progressive rock has taken much for granted. In particular, little account has been taken of how discourses surrounding progressive rock were deployed in popular culture in the past, especially... Read More about The Absent Presence of Progressive Rock in the British Music Press, 1968-1974.

Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music (2019)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2019). Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music. Popular Music, 38(2), 204-218. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143019000084

Authenticity is a key concept in the evaluation of rock music by critics and fans. The production of fakes challenges the means by which listeners evaluate the authentic, by questioning central notions of integrity and sincerity. This paper examine... Read More about Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music.

Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology (2014)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2014). Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology. Popular Music, 33(3), 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1017/s026114301400035x

The practice of curation in popular music may be seen as a form of historical enquiry that works in a similar way to the critical projects of the ‘new museology’. Self-curation can be employed by musicians to re-present their work as a historiograph... Read More about Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology.

Review of "Alternative and Activist New Media". (2013)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2013). Review of "Alternative and Activist New Media". Prometheus, 31, 77-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/08109028.2012.750442

Dyskurs fanowski i konstrukcja muzyki noise jako gatunku (2013)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2013). Dyskurs fanowski i konstrukcja muzyki noise jako gatunku. Glissando, 46-53

Review of "Citizens' Media Against Armed Conflict: Disrupting Violence in Colombia" (2013)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2013). Review of "Citizens' Media Against Armed Conflict: Disrupting Violence in Colombia". Contemporary Sociology, 42, 612-613. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306113491549ss

Review of "Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media" (2012)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2012). Review of "Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media". Journalism, 13, 1102-1104. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884912446908

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.

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.

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

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

Writing about listening: alternative discourses in rock journalism (2009)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2009). Writing about listening: alternative discourses in rock journalism. Popular Music, 28, 53-67. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114300800158X

‘Alternative’ publications challenge the conventional discourses of rock journalism. In particular, the dominant discourses of authenticity, masculinity and mythology might be countered by publications that emphasise historical and (sub)cultural fra... Read More about Writing about listening: alternative discourses in rock journalism.

Review of "Understanding Alternative Media". (2009)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2009). Review of "Understanding Alternative Media". Media, Culture and Society, 31, 683-684. doi:10.1177/0163443709335284

Why alternative journalism matters (2009)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2009). Why alternative journalism matters. Journalism, 10(3), 283-285. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884909102582

Why alternative journalism matters. (2008)
Journal Article
Atton, C., & Hamilton, J. F. (2008). Why alternative journalism matters. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 1-15

Review of "The Ethical Journalist". (2008)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2008). Review of "The Ethical Journalist". Media, Culture and Society, 30, 917-918. doi:10.1177/0163443708096812

Review of "OurSpace: resisting the corporate control of culture". (2008)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2008). Review of "OurSpace: resisting the corporate control of culture". Media, Culture and Society, 30, 427-429. doi:10.1177/01634437080300030902

Current Issues in Alternative Media Research (2007)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2007). Current Issues in Alternative Media Research. Sociology Compass, 1, 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00005.x

Research in alternative media has burgeoned since the turn of the millennium. The majority of studies has examined the political and social dimensions of alternative media and has focused on the media of social movements. The value of these amateur m... Read More about Current Issues in Alternative Media Research.