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"Sing it with me now” : audience participation in arena concerts (2015)
Book Chapter
Spelman, N. (2015). "Sing it with me now” : audience participation in arena concerts. In R. Edgar, K. Fairclough, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (231-246). London & New York: Bloomsbury

Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert. In B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London: Bloombsury

Through her live arena performances, pop/R and B artist Beyoncé Knowles appears to promote a shiny, depthless feminism that mass audiences can embrace. This chapter will provide a critical analysis of her 2013-2014 arena concert tour, The Mrs Carter... Read More about Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert.

Intimate live girls (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Intimate live girls. In B. Halligan, N. Spelman, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The arena concert requires a particular type of liveness of performance in order to transcend impersonal mass entertainment. Liveness here looks to authenticity and happenstance, privileges personal communications and seeks to live in the moment, and... Read More about Intimate live girls.

Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991 (2013)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2013). Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991. In M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Resonances : Noise and Contemporary Music. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher's description of book: Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or d... Read More about Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991.

Sshhh (2012)
Book Chapter
Cookney, D. (2012). Sshhh. In M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & P. Hegarty (Eds.), The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise (147-163). London: Continuum (Bloomsbury)

This chapter documents a process undertaken by the author in summer 2010. Submitted as part of the University of Salford’s MA Communication Design programme, the study resulted in a practice-based outcome – a compact disc of audio recordings housed w... Read More about Sshhh.

‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise (2012)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2012). ‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise. In B. Halligan, M. Goddard, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise. London and New York: Continuum/Bloomsbury

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution.This wi... Read More about ‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise.