Everyone Loves Live Music

A Theory of Performance Institutions

Everyone Loves Live Music
Fabian Holt
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14 Dec 2020 US
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9780226738543
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Every year, millions of music fans come from far and wide to swarm parks and arenas to hear their favorite bands at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Coachella, and Glastonbury. How did these and countless other festivals across the globe evolve into glamorous pop culture events and create powerful ideas about music and public culture? In Everyone Loves Live Music, Fabian Holt looks beyond the slick marketing images to show how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades, as part of broader changes in society. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a pioneering theory of performance institutions. He explores the fascinating history of the club and the festival in San Francisco and New York, as well as a number of European cities. These two central institutions of popular music-the club and the festival-are further analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. An engaging read for musicians, fans, and scholars alike, Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism.
"This book is a highly original and quite brilliant approach to the study of musical performance institutions. I know of no other book that has such a broad perspective. Unique in its approach, ground-breaking in its objectives, Everyone Loves Live Music presents some fascinating information about both rock clubs and large rock festivals that make it a milestone and a point of reference for future studies. "--Anthony Seeger, University of California at Los Angeles "Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music--the club and the festival--are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. "-- "The New Books Network" "Many of us do indeed love music venues and summer music festivals, and in this book Holt does a terrific job of showing how even such beloved institutions are tied up with excessive commercialization, dubious policy developments and property speculation. That shouldn' t stop people from enjoyment, but it might help us understand our pleasures better by forestalling naive assumptions that contemporary musical experience is innocently separate from the nastier elements of our capitalist societies. "--David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, author of Why Music Matters "Everyone Loves Live Music provides original and relevant keys to understanding the extraordinary development of festivals, concerts and live shows and how they simultaneously serve as resources of community and authenticity among fans, objects of business investment, and tools of public policy of culture and tourism. "--Gerome Guibert, Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is the author of Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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ISBN-13: 9780226738543
Published: 14 Dec 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352

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