The Audience Experience identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. Together, new communication technologies and new kinds of audiences have transformed the expectations of performance, and The Audience Experience explores key trends in the contemporary presentation of performing arts. The book also presents case studies of audience engagement and methodology, reviewing both conventional and innovative ways of collecting and using audience feedback data. Directed to performing arts companies, sponsors, stakeholders, and scholars, this collection of essays moves beyond the conventional arts marketing paradigm to offer new knowledge about how audiences experience the performing arts.
McKinney also suggests that kinaesthetic empathy might be useful for considering the empty room, since “empathy, stimulated by kinaesthetic perception, might arise between spectators and scenographic objects as well” (2012: 225).
This collection explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened.
In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to discover a fuller understanding of cinema as an art form and a social institution that matters to millions of people worldwide.
Through investigating the rhetorics of morality underpinning both sides of the argument, this book examines how models of 'good' and 'bad' spectatorship are constructed and legitimised. Is theatre etiquette actually snobbish?
Central to this book is their 2013 performance for Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm.
... Audience Research Centre in 2010, that a more of a connection has been made to the audience experience of music over the listener's experience (e.g. Burland & Pitts, 2014; Pitts, 2005). How has the activity of being an audience member ...
... the audience's experience of quality is currently being addressed. In an era in which music companies are increasingly risk-averse in their efforts to prevent audience ... audience-reported responses to the nature of their experience at a.
From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America * Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * "One Book One New Orleans ...
This book explores the concept of audience engagement from a number of complementary perspectives, including cultural value, arts marketing, co-creation and digital engagement.
Why? And how? : The contribution of sociology to the study of arts audiences and where it needs help / Laurie Hanquinet -- The future of audiences and audiencing / Jennifer Novak Leonard -- Which global? Which local?