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...
Peripheral visions? Alternative film in a stateless nation.
Book Chapter
MacPherson, R. (2015)
Peripheral visions? Alternative film in a stateless nation. In C. Atton (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media, (268-277). Routledge
Scotland is a small, stateless nation whose mainstream media and national cinema have generally been positioned by media scholars as constituting an alternative to the UK’s m...
Fanzines: enthusiastic production through popular culture
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2015)
Fanzines: enthusiastic production through popular culture. In C. Atton (Ed.), Routledge companion to alternative and community media (437-444). Routledge
No abstract available.
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...
Alternative media in Scotland: Problems, positions and 'Product'
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2000)
Alternative media in Scotland: Problems, positions and 'Product'. Critical Quarterly, 42(4), (40-46). doi:10.1111/1467-8705.00318. ISSN 0011-1562
Examines varied issues related to alternative media in Scotland. Analysis of a set of media practices collectively known as alternative media; Problems on finding an adequate ...
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...
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
No abstract available.
What is 'Alternative' Journalism?
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2003)
What is 'Alternative' Journalism?. Journalism, 4(3), 267-272. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849030043001
No abstract available.
Policing electronic information: threats to freedom of expression
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1995)
Policing electronic information: threats to freedom of expression. New Library World, 96(5), (5-9). doi:10.1108/03074809510147191. ISSN 0307-4803
Considers two limits on freedom of expression in electronic
media: the regulation of the Internet and electronic
copyright. Examines these in two case studies, one on the
stat...
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...