Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2019)
Challenging authenticity: fakes and forgeries in rock music. Popular Music, 38(2), 204-218. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143019000084
Authenticity is a key concept in the evaluation of rock music by critics and fans. The production of fakes challenges the means by which listeners evaluate the authentic, by ...
Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe
Conference Proceeding
Medboe, H., Bares, W., Webster, E., Frost Fadnes, P., Inglis, C., Kahr, M., …Heyman, M. (2017)
Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe. In Z. Moir, & C. Atton (Eds.), Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe - Conference Proceedings. , (v-vi
Following popular exposure in France to the proto-jazz of James Reese Europe and his 369th “Harlem Hellfighters” Infantry Regiment during the latter years of WW1, the jazz bug...
Writing about popular music: continuity, change and convergence in a digital age.
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2015)
Writing about popular music: continuity, change and convergence in a digital age. In F. Trumpi, & S. Obert (Eds.), Musikkritik: Historische Zugänge und systematische Perspektiven, (11-32). Mille Tre Verlag
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Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2014)
Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology. Popular Music, 33, 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114301400035X
The practice of curation in popular music may be seen as a form of historical enquiry that works in a similar way to the critical projects of the ‘new museology’. Self-curati...
What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2014, April)
What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?. Paper presented at Studying Music: An International Conference in Honour of Simon Frith, University of Edinburgh
The sociology of popular music has tended to eschew conventional musicological approaches and instead to locate the listening experience as one rooted in social uses and pleas...
Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'.
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2013, October)
Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'
Difficulty and complexity are values most often associated with a modernist avant-garde of ‘serious’ music. Their presence in popular music tends to attract the opprobrium of...
Listening to 'difficult albums': specialist music fans and the popular avant-garde
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2012)
Listening to 'difficult albums': specialist music fans and the popular avant-garde. Popular Music, 31, 347-361. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143012000281
Difficulty is most often associated, not with popular music, but with the avant-garde. How do popular music listeners listen to albums that present compositional, performance...
Fan discourse and the construction of noise music as a genre
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2011)
Fan discourse and the construction of noise music as a genre. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 23, 324-342
Recent theoretical interest in Noise has drawn attention to the difficulties of making sense of it as a musical practice. Various claims have been made: Noise challenges the ...
Big noise, little worlds: genre and the cultural politics of territory in the live experience of “extreme” music.
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2011, March)
Big noise, little worlds: genre and the cultural politics of territory in the live experience of “extreme” music. Paper presented at The business of live music, University of Edinburgh
Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities.
Report
Atton, C., McCleery, A., Mabweazara, H. & Ward, S. (2007)
Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities. Edinburgh, Scotland: Million+
The creative industries are founded on innovation. They are responsive, multifaceted and evolving and have developed new models of business in order to adapt and contribute to...