Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music out now!

I am very pleased to announce that Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music is out now!

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevance of newly composed music with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music, drawing on data collected across ten different European countries. I take a multidimensional view of audience experience, looking at how sociodemographic factors and the frames of social context and concert format shape aesthetic responses and experiences in the concert hall. Contemporary classical music is critically discussed as a ‘high art subculture’ rife with contradictions and conflicts around its cultural value.