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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.