Book chapter on the changing landscape of festivals in Australia which explores the human needs fulfilled by music and understand why such festivals and events have become so popular with policy makers and researchers alike.
Tag Archives: fandom
Patterns of listening through social media: online fan engagement with the live music experience – Lucy Bennett (2012)
Anatomy of a Gig #2: Roger Waters (The Wall) – Steven Brown
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Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans – Daniel Cavicchi (1998)
Based on of ethnographic research amid Springsteen’s fans, and informed by the author’s own experiences as a fan, this is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to a particular artist and his songs, and of how these attachments function in their lives.