Dave Laing maps popular music performance sites to understand the links between performers and their audiences, drawing on case studies including Elton John, and Manchester in the 1960s.
Category Archives: Live music places
Live music and urban landscape: mapping the beat in Liverpool – Sara Cohen (2012)
The Economic Impact of the Cultural and Creative Industries in Oxfordshire – Oxford Inspires (2010)
The real “crossroads” of live music: the conventions of performance at open mic nights in Edinburgh – Adam Behr (2012)
Presents ethnographic work on open mic nights in Edinburgh, a hitherto under examined activity that lies in the hinterland of professional live music and serves as a junction between professional and amateur practice. Details implicit and explicit codes of behaviour and a typology of different nights.
Does the music matter? Motivations for attending a music festival – Heather E.Bowen and Margaret J.Daniels (2005)
Typological trends in contemporary popular music performance venues – Robert Kronenburg (2011)
A review of orchestral provision for Yorkshire – G. Devlin and J. Ackrill (2005)
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79 – Tim Lawrence (2004)
Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles – Sara Cohen (2007)
Rock Culture in Liverpool: Popular Music in the Making – Sara Cohen (1991)
This book delineates and discusses rock culture in Liverpool as a way or style of life, highlighting its associated conventions, rituals, norms, and beliefs within the city’s own unique social, economic, cultural, and political environment. It deals with the hitherto little explored music-making by ‘local’, ‘amateur’ rock bands.