Open AccessPopular music and producing collectivities: the challenges of audience research in contemporary musicology
Author(s) -
Ana Petrov
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz1518099p
Subject(s) - musicology , popular music , space (punctuation) , period (music) , audience reception , sociology , media studies , audience participation , music history , visual arts , art , aesthetics , music education , computer science , operating system
In this paper I deal with the ways in which the audience functions as a means of producing collectivities. I define audience as a material body that is a carrier of affective potential in a certain time and space. Taking Yugoslav popular music as an example, i.e. the concerts of performers from the territory of former Yugoslavia, I analyse two crucial issues: the audience at popular music concerts in Belgrade in the period after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and the audience that is created virtually through social networks