| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Stately Pleasure-Dome / Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman -- Part 1: Prehistories. From Mach Schau to Mock Show: The Beatles, Shea Stadium, and Rock Spectacle / Jeffrey Roessner -- Beyond Beatlemania: The Shea Stadium Concert as Discursive Construct / Mark Duffett -- Through a Lens Darkly: The Changing Performer-Audience Dynamic as Documented by Four Progressive Rock Concert Films / Kevin Holm-Hudson -- Evolutions of The Wall: 1979-2013 / Kimi Karki -- pt. 2: Arena Concerts Now. From Shed to Venue: the Arena Concert Event Space / Robert Kronenburg -- Constructing the Cosmopolitan Arena Concert / Lukasz Swiatek -- Roll Up and Shine A Case Study of Stereophonics at Glasgow's SECC Arena / Emma Webster -- Being There: Encounters with Space and the Affective Dimension of Arena Spectacle / Alice O'Grady -- pt. 3. Three: Perspectives : Personal and Professional. Hello Cleveland.! The View from the Stage / Jon Stewart -- Illuminating Arenas: Towards the Ultimate Multimedia Experience / Jon Stewart and Benjamin Halligan -- A Personal History of UK Arena Concerts: Reflections on Gigs over the Past Forty Years / Peter Smith -- Rocking Around Watford: Trying to Find What I Was Looking For / Robert Edgar, with Julia and Evan Shelton pt. 4: Arena Media. The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded / Robert Edgar -- We Made This Together: How Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! Foresaw Changes in the Live Concert Experience Brought about by Digital Technology and Social Media / Neil Fox -- Framing Experience: Filming and the Excesses of Aesthetics / Erich Hertz pt. 5: The Arena Experience. Sing it with me now: Audience Participation in Arena Concerts / Nicola Spelman -- Performing Kylie: Looks Divine / Sunil Manghani -- Intimacy in Public / Jos Mulder -- Beyonce's Celebrity Feminism and Performances of Female Empowerment in the Arena Concert / Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs -- Intimate Live Girls / Benjamin Halligan. |
| Summary |
This volume offers interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass audience, recollections of the giants of late 20th century music in performance, and critiques of latter-day pretenders to the throne. The authors track the evolution of the arena concert, consider design and architecture, celebrity and fashion, and turn to feminism, ethnographic research, and ideas of humour, liveness and authenticity, in order to explore and frame the arena concert. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rock concerts -- Social aspects.
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Rock & Pop music. |
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Music industry. |
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Music. |
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. |
| Added Author |
Edgar-Hunt, Robert.
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Fairclough-Isaacs, Kirsty.
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Halligan, Benjamin.
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Spelman, Nicola.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Arena concert 9781628925548 (DLC) 2015022932 (OCoLC)894540593 |
| ISBN |
9781628925562 (electronic bk.) |
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1628925566 (electronic bk.) |
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9781628925579 |
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1628925574 |
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9781628925548 |
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162892554X |
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9781628925555 |
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1628925558 |
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