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...
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 ...
Review of "Rock over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture".
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2004)
Review of "Rock over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture". European Journal of Cultural Studies, 7(1), 122-124. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549404039863