What Makes an Audience? Investigating the Roles and Experiences of Listeners at a Chamber Music Festival

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University students’ strong experiences of music (2011, background): “Adopting a different approach, others have explored in detail specific contexts which provide rich musical and social experiences, such as music festivals, in order to consider the importance of music in listeners’ lives (e.g., Karlsen, 2007; Pitts, 2005a, 2005b).”
Emotion, engagement and meaning in strong experiences of music performance (2012, methodology): “An idiographic approach has been applied, taking the individual account as the unit of analysis (Pelham, 1993), as previously done for music listening accounts by Lamont (2011b) and for concert audiences by Pitts (2005a).”
The impact of music festival attendance on young people’s psychological and social well-being (2011, background): “As well as the music itself, factors such as the thrill of physical proximity to the performer and social interaction with other attendees have been found to be important to participants (Oakes, 2003; Paleo & Wijnberg, 2006; Pitts, 2005).”