Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-lrblm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-14T21:08:22.014Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

I'm waiting for the band: protraction and provocation at rock concerts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

RICHARD WITTS
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Why do bands keep audiences waiting? This question is one among several by which I aim to delimit the phenomenon of the public performance experience. I want to determine how far a concert is a sequence of rituals – rather than an encounter critically focused on the act of music-making – where it is the observance of each component that decides the success of the occasion. I ask this of all types of concerts, by the way, but – hey – this is a popular music journal.

Type
Middle Eight
Information
Popular Music , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 147 - 152
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)