All Outputs (4)

Alternative media, the mundane and 'everyday citizenship' (2014)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2014). Alternative media, the mundane and 'everyday citizenship'. In M. Ratto, & M. Boler (Eds.), DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media (343-357). MIT Press

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Reshaping social movement media for a new millennium. (2014)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2014). Reshaping social movement media for a new millennium. In S. ., & R. Kumar (Eds.), Social Movements: Transformative Shifts and Turning Points, 347-364. Routledge

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.

What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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?.