Researching Live Music

Chris Anderton is Associate Professor in Cultural Economy at Solent University, Southampton. He is the author of Music Festivals in the UK: Beyond the Carnivalesque (2019) and co-author of both Understanding the Music Industries (2013) and Music Management, Marketing and PR: Creating Connections and Conversations (forthcoming). He is also co-editor of Media Narratives in Popular Music (forthcoming) and has guest edited issues of the journals Rock Music Studies and Arts and the Market. Sergio Pisfil is a Lecturer and researcher at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. His PhD, gained at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Simon Frith, focused on the history of live sound and its connections to rock music between 1967 and 1973. His research interests include live music, and the history and esthetics of popular music. His work has been published in various edited collections, including The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research, Gender in Music Production, and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Progressive Rock; and in journals such as Popular Music and Society and Communiquer (forthcoming). He is currently guest editing a special issue on live music for the journal Arts and the Market.

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Live Music Studies in Perspective

Chris Anderton and Sergio Pisfil

PART I: Promotion






Festivals, Free and Unfree: Alex Cooley and the American Rock Festival
Steve Waksman




As Long As They Go Home Safe: The Voice of the Independent Music Festival Promoter
Danny Hagan




Under the Cover of Darkness: Situating "Covers Gigs" within Live Music Ecologies
Pat O’Grady




Showcase Festivals as a Gateway to Foreign Markets
Patryk Galuszka




Disruption and Continuity: Covid-19, Live Music, and Cyclic Sociality
Chris Anderton



PART II: Production




Live Sound Matters
Christopher James Dahlie, Jos Mulder, Sergio Pisfil, and Nick Reeder




Mobile Spectacle: Es Devlin’s Pandemonium Tour Design
Glyn Davis




Fulfilling the Hospitality Rider: Working Practices and Issues in a Tour’s Supply Chain
Gabrielle Kielich




Vocaloid Liveness? Hatsune Miku and the Live Production of the Japanese Virtual Idol Concerts
Kimi Kärki



Part III: Consumption




Making Music Public: What Would a Sociology of Live Music Promotion Look Like?
Loïc Riom




Dead Stars Live: Exploring Holograms, Liveness, and Authenticity
Kenny Forbes




Live … as You’ve Always Heard It Before: Classic Rock, Technology, and the Re-positioning of Authenticity in Live Music Performance
Andy Bennett




Approaching the Live from a Distance: The Unofficial Led Zeppelin Archive
Stephen Loy



Part IV: Policy




Music Cities, or Cities of Music?
Christina Ballico and Dave Carter




State of Play: Tensions and Interventions in Live Music Policy
Adam Behr




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




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

Gérôme Guibert, Michaël Spanu, and Catherine Rudent

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