Collects concert memories from poets, songwriters, biographers, novelists, and cultural critics, describing their experiences of seeing such artists as Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Bill Evans, and Queen.
"In 1964, the Beatles invaded America. Thirty-two shows in 25 cities in 31 days. Record-smashing attendance. Unimaginable fan reactions. It was the first major rock-and-roll concert tour ever. It was the beginning of a revolution. Ticket to Ride tells this story like it's never …
The art of listening and its histories : an introduction / Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer -- Secion I. Listening behaviors and emotions. Who cares if you listen : researching audience behavior(s) in nineteenth-century Paris / Katharine Ellis ; The well-mannered auditor : …
"This handbook takes on the task of examining the history of music listening over the past two hundred years. It uses the 'art of listening' as a leitmotif encompassing an entanglement of interdependent practices and discourses about a learnable mode of perception. The art of li…
An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The act of listening as considered to be an invisible and ephemeral phenomenon, a naturally given mode of perception. This narrative influenced the …
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 pol…
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 pol…
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 pol…
Music in the British provinces, 1690-1914
Music in the British provinces, 1690-1914
Music in the British provinces, 1690-1914
Music in the British provinces, 1690-1914
From packing the right equipment to keeping enough gas in the tank to get home, every aspect of making a successful tour with a band is addressed in this comprehensive guide. Over 100 luminaries and leading organisations from the world of touring -- among them Chris Connelly, He…