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An Orchestral Audience: Classical Music and Continued Patterns of Distinction.
- Source :
- Cultural Sociology; Dec2014, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p483-500, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This paper considers the key findings of a year-long collaborative research project focusing on the audience of the London Symphony Orchestra and their introduction of a new mobile telephone (‘app’) ticketing system. A mixed-method approach was employed, utilizing focus groups and questionnaires with over 80 participants, to research a sample group of university students. This research develops our understanding of classical music audiences, and highlights the continued individualistic, middle-class, and exclusionary culture of classical music attendance and patterns of behaviours. The research also suggests that a mobile phone app does prove a useful mechanism for selling discounted tickets, but shows little indication of being a useful means of expanding this audience beyond its traditional demographic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ORCHESTRA
MUSIC audiences
CELL phones
COLLEGE students
MOBILE apps
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17499755
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Cultural Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 100427854
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975514541862