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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.

The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment (2015)
Book
(2015). B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might be said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, ex... Read More about The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment.

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.

The music documentary : acid rock to electropop (2013)
Book
(2013). B. Halligan, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The music documentary : acid rock to electropop. US and UK: Routledge

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music document... Read More about The music documentary : acid rock to electropop.

Resonances : noise and contemporary music (2013)
Book
(2013). M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Resonances : noise and contemporary music. New York and London: Continuum / Bloomsbury

Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thr... Read More about Resonances : noise and contemporary music.

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.

Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise (2012)
Book
(2012). B. Halligan, M. Goddard, & P. Hegarty (Eds.), Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise. London and New York: Continuum

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. Thi... Read More about Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise.

‘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.

Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art music and politics (2010)
Book
Goddard, M., & Halligan, B. (2010). M. Goddard, & B. Halligan (Eds.), Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art music and politics. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate

An edited collection with Benjamin Halligan that examines the post-punk music of Mark E. Smith and The Fall form a variety of critical perspectives.

The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012)
Thesis
Dewan, A. (in press). The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012). (Thesis). University of Salford

This research project surveyed the Influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria. It analyses how conflict journalists reported this violent episode that has spanned nearly twenty years and the si... Read More about The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012).

Exploring melancholy (place to place)
Thesis
Tayyar, A. (in press). Exploring melancholy (place to place). (Dissertation). The University of Salford

This study presented here is built on practice-based research into photographic images of melancholic landscapes. According to Stedman et al. (2004), few photographers are interested in examining the different meanings of the settings in their work.... Read More about Exploring melancholy (place to place).