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Author: Dr. Benjamin Halligan (Director of the Doctoral College, University of Wolverhampton, UK) ,
Dr. Kirsty Fairclough (Associate Dean: Research and Innovation, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,
Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar (Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University, UK) ,
Nicola Spelman (University of Salford, UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9781628925555
ISBN 10: 1628925558
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 19 November 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'A Messianic aspiration to the Sermon on the Mount with visions of totalitarian uniformity': the editors characterize what was once mass entertainment, but is now mass-produced entertainment. Intricately and insightfully interlacing analysis, commentary, evaluations and interviews, the editors offer the definitive text on perhaps the most spectacular and (literally) awesome form of musical entertainment ever conceived. They take us from to Shea Stadium, New York in the 1960s to the O2 Arena Dublin today; we are with Coldplay one chapter, Iron Maiden the next; Dylan in Manchester, England, Beyonce in Rosemont, Illinois. My ears are still ringing. A stunning text. Ellis Cashmore, author of Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption and Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama's America
“'A Messianic aspiration to the Sermon on the Mount with visions of totalitarian uniformity': the editors characterize what was once mass entertainment, but is now mass-produced entertainment. Intricately and insightfully interlacing analysis, commentary, evaluations and interviews, the editors offer the definitive text on perhaps the most spectacular and (literally) awesome form of musical entertainment ever conceived. They take us from to Shea Stadium, New York in the 1960s to the O2 Arena Dublin today; we are with Coldplay one chapter, Iron Maiden the next; Dylan in Manchester, England, Beyoncé in Rosemont, Illinois. My ears are still ringing. A stunning text. * Ellis Cashmore, author of Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption and Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama’s America * This is a striking new book addressing the recent radical reconfiguration of popular music around the arena concert as charged and monumental event. It illustrates vividly how far the large-scale musical event has pulled together and redefined music, celebrity, audience, consumerism, technology, and, as the book also shrewdly notes, retaining a degree of religious aura as part of the bargain. The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is a remarkable intervention, defining the field with a varied and highly engaging collection of essays, aware of earlier ideas but striving for a new and sophisticated understanding of this crucial and dominant facet of current musical culture. * K.J. Donnelly, Reader in Film, University of Southampton, UK *
Author Information
Robert Edgar is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at York St John University, UK. Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance and Associate Director (International) in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK. Benjamin Halligan is Director of Postgraduate Research for the College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Salford, UK. Nicola Spelman is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK.
