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
All Outputs (5)
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/S0261143012000281Difficulty 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/10.1177/1367549412442671This 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)