In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider
music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different …

Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and
experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to …

Social experience is often considered to be a key motivating factor for engaging with leisure
activities and attendance at music concerts is no exception. Despite this, until recently, there …

Drawing upon extensive empirical research with jazz and classical music audiences in the
UK, this chapter considers the nature of the concert ritual and the varying motivations and …

There has been an increase in the number of arts and music festivals held annually in South
Africa. These festivals range from wide all-encompassing arts festivals, such as the National …

An abundance of studies on emotional experiences in response to music have been
published over the past decades, however, most have been carried out in controlled …

Based on an online survey, this study investigated the effect of various factors, including
those related to performance, acoustic condition, visual condition, price, comfort …

Drawing on unique multi-arts, multi-city scholarly research, Understanding Audiences for the
Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts …

Research into audience engagement in the arts is a growing area of interest because of the
need to build audiences and to provide convincing evidence of the value of arts programs to …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of the “audience
exchange” approach for audience development and research, and to highlight the insights …