Short description:

Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies, a field which has, over the past ten years, seen a steady growth in publications that examine the history of live music venues and promoters, the economics of the live music industry, and the operations of the sector.

Long description:

Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies.

Featuring paradigmatic case studies, this book is split into four parts, first addressing perspectives associated with production, then promotion and consumption, and finally policy. The contributors to the book draw on a range of methodological and theoretical positions to provide a critical resource that casts new light on live music processes and shows how live music events have become central to raising and discussing broader social and cultural issues. Their case studies expand our knowledge of how live music events work and extend beyond the familiar contexts of the United States and United Kingdom to include examples drawn from Argentina, Australia, France, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Poland.

Researching Live Music is the first comprehensive review of the different ways in which live music can be studied as an interdisciplinary field, including innovative approaches to the study of historic and contemporary live music events. It represents a crucial reading for professionals, students, and researchers working in all aspects of live music.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Live Music Studies in Perspective

1. Festivals, Free and Unfree: Alex Cooley and the American Rock Festival





Steve Waksman









2. As Long As They Go Home Safe: The Voice of the Independent Music Festival Promoter





Danny Hagan









3. Under the Cover of Darkness: Situating "Covers Gigs" within Live Music Ecologies





Pat O?Grady









4. Showcase Festivals as a Gateway to Foreign Markets





Patryk Galuszka









5. Disruption and Continuity: Covid-19, Live Music, and Cyclic Sociality





Chris Anderton






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PART II: Production









6. Live Sound Matters





Christopher James Dahlie, Jos Mulder, Sergio Pisfil, and Nick Reeder









7. Mobile Spectacle: Es Devlin?s Pandemonium Tour Design





Glyn Davis









8. Fulfilling the Hospitality Rider: Working Practices and Issues in a Tour?s Supply Chain





Gabrielle Kielich









9. Vocaloid Liveness? Hatsune Miku and the Live Production of the Japanese Virtual Idol Concerts





Kimi Kärki






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Part III: Consumption









10. Making Music Public: What Would a Sociology of Live Music Promotion Look Like?





Lo?c Riom









11. Dead Stars Live: Exploring Holograms, Liveness, and Authenticity





Kenny Forbes









12. Live ? as You?ve Always Heard It Before: Classic Rock, Technology, and the Re-positioning of Authenticity in Live Music Performance





Andy Bennett









13. Approaching the Live from a Distance: The Unofficial Led Zeppelin Archive





Stephen Loy






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Part IV: Policy









14. Music Cities, or Cities of Music?





Christina Ballico and Dave Carter









15. State of Play: Tensions and Interventions in Live Music Policy





Adam Behr









16. "Por Más Músicas Mujeres en Vivo!": The Live Music Female Quota Law and Its Implications for Argentine Music Festivals





Sarah Lahasky









17. Beyond Live Shows: Regulation and Innovation in the French Live Music Video Economy

Index