The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment / edited by Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edgar-Hunt, Robert, editor.

Fairclough, Kirsty, editor.

Halligan, Benjamin, editor.

Spelman, Nicola, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock concerts--Social aspects.

Rock concerts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century. 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 twentieth 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. The arena concert becomes the ?real time? centre of a global digital network, and the gig-goer pays not only for an immersion in (and, indeed, role in) its spectacular nature, but also for a close encounter with the performers, in this contained and exalted space. The spectacular nature of the arena concert raises challenges that have yet to be fully technologically overcome, and has given rise to a reinvention of what live music actually means. Love it or loathe it, the arena concert is a major presence in the cultural landscape of the 21st century. This volume finds out why."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: 'A Stately Pleasure-Dome'

Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman

Part One: Prehistories

1: From Mach Schau to Mock Show: The Beatles, Shea Stadium, and Rock Spectacle

Jeffrey Roessner

2. Beyond Beatlemania: The Shea Stadium Concert as Discursive Construct

Mark Duffett

3: Through a Lens Darkly: The Changing Performer-Audience Dynamic as Documented by Four Progressive Rock Concert Films

Kevin Holm-Hudson

4: Evolutions of The Wall : 1979 ? 2013

Kimi Kärki

Part Two: Arena Concerts Now

5: From Shed to Venue: the Arena Concert Event Space

Robert Kronenburg

6: Constructing the Cosmopolitan Arena Concert

Lukasz Swiatek

7: 'Roll Up and Shine': A Case Study of Stereophonics at Glasgow's SECC Arena

Emma Webster

8: Being There: Encounters with Space and the Affective Dimension of Arena Spectacle

Alice O'Grady

Part Three: Perspectives - Personal and Professional

9: 'Hello Cleveland..!': The View from the Stage

Jon Stewart

10: Illuminating Arenas: Towards the 'Ultimate Multimedia Experience'

Jon Stewart and Benjamin Halligan

11: A Personal History of UK Arena Concerts: Reflections on Gigs over the Past Forty Years

Peter Smith

12: Rocking Around Watford: Trying to Find What I Was Looking For

Robert Edgar, with Julia and Evan Shelton

Part Four: Arena Media

13: The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded

Robert Edgar

14: 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

15: Framing Experience: Filming and the Excesses of Aesthetics

Erich Hertz

Part Five: The Arena Experience

16: 'Sing it with me now': Audience Participation in Arena Concerts

Nicola Spelman

17: Performing Kylie: Looks Divine

Sunil Manghani

18: Intimacy in Public

Jos Mulder

19: Beyoncé's Celebrity Feminism and Performances of Female Empowerment in the Arena Concert.

Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

20: Intimate Live Girls

Benjamin Halligan

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501316326

150131632X

9781628925562

1628925566

OCLC:

926101809