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...
Between the avant-garde and the popular: the discursive economy of Brian Eno’s musical practices
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2016)
Between the avant-garde and the popular: the discursive economy of Brian Eno’s musical practices. In S. Albiez, & D. Pattie (Eds.), Brian Eno: Oblique Music, (69-83). Bloomsbury Publishing
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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
No abstract available.
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...
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...
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
In search of cultural politics in a Fall fanzine.
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2010)
In search of cultural politics in a Fall fanzine. In M. Goddard, & B. Halligan (Eds.), Mark E. Smith and the Fall: Art, Music and Politics (169-180). Ashgate Publishing