What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2014, April)
What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?. Paper presented at Studying Music: An International Conference in Honour of Simon Frith, University of Edinburgh
The sociology of popular music has tended to eschew conventional musicological approaches and instead to locate the listening experience as one rooted in social uses and pleas...
Activist media as mainstream model: what can professional journalists learn from Indymedia?
Book
Atton, C. (2010)
Activist media as mainstream model: what can professional journalists learn from Indymedia?. In B. Franklin, & M. Carlson (Eds.), Journalists, Sources and Credibility: New Perspectives, 61-75. Routledge
Theorizing Anglo-American alternative media: toward a contextual history and analysis of US and UK scholarship.
Journal Article
Hamilton, J. F. & Atton, C. (2000)
Theorizing Anglo-American alternative media: toward a contextual history and analysis of US and UK scholarship. Media History. 7, 119-135. doi:10.1080/13688800120092200. ISSN 1368-8804
What can journalism educators learn from alternative media practitioners?
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2002, November)
What can journalism educators learn from alternative media practitioners?. Paper presented at Scottish Media and Communication Association Annual Conference, Glasgow
Activist media as mainstream source: what can professional journalists learn from Indymedia?
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2009, September)
Activist media as mainstream source: what can professional journalists learn from Indymedia?. Paper presented at The Future of Journalism, University of Cardiff
Alternative media
Book
Atton, C. (2002)
Alternative media. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446220153
What are 'alternative media'? Are they the same as underground, radical or oppositional media? In this book, Chris Atton offers a fresh introduction to alternative media: one ...
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...
Review of "Progressive Rock Reconsidered"
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2002)
Review of "Progressive Rock Reconsidered". Popular Music. 21, 386-388. doi:10.1017/S026114300226225X,. ISSN 0261-1430
Anarchy on the Internet: obstacles and opportunities for alternative electronic publishing.
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1995)
Anarchy on the Internet: obstacles and opportunities for alternative electronic publishing. Anarchist studies. 4, 115-132
The article summarises the constraints on alternative (print) publishing: economic, legal and social. It suggests that electronic publishing on the Internet might dispense wit...
Popular music fanzines: genre, aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation”
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2010)
Popular music fanzines: genre, aesthetics, and the “Democratic Conversation”. Popular Music and Society, 33, 517-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007761003694316
Research into fanzines has tended to locate them as subcultural artefacts whose significance is found in their symbolic fit with the subculture responsible for producing them....