TY - JOUR
T1 - Charting the past to understand the cultural inheritance of concert hall listening and audience development practices
AU - Nicholls, Claire D.
AU - Hall, Clare
AU - Forgasz, Rachel
PY - 2018/7/4
Y1 - 2018/7/4
N2 - Although often thought of as a contemporary practice, audience development and pedagogies for listener education can be traced throughout the history of the public concert where their origins were forged. This paper unpacks how western listening and audience practices have developed over time, the changes in listening and behaviour norms, the emergence of early practitioners who developed ideas and pedagogies for listener education within the concert hall in Europe, and exposes the current paucity of research on the educational dimension of audience development and pedagogies of listening in the contemporary orchestral concert hall. It is argued that by understanding the past we can better understand the current concert hall and the ways we ourselves actively participate and create our own histories in the ongoing evolution of classical music performance. The paper concludes that this cultural inheritance has implications for arts organisations, educators, audiences, and listeners alike.
AB - Although often thought of as a contemporary practice, audience development and pedagogies for listener education can be traced throughout the history of the public concert where their origins were forged. This paper unpacks how western listening and audience practices have developed over time, the changes in listening and behaviour norms, the emergence of early practitioners who developed ideas and pedagogies for listener education within the concert hall in Europe, and exposes the current paucity of research on the educational dimension of audience development and pedagogies of listening in the contemporary orchestral concert hall. It is argued that by understanding the past we can better understand the current concert hall and the ways we ourselves actively participate and create our own histories in the ongoing evolution of classical music performance. The paper concludes that this cultural inheritance has implications for arts organisations, educators, audiences, and listeners alike.
KW - audience education
KW - history of audience development
KW - history of the public concert
KW - Listening pedagogies
KW - orchestral audiences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034634441&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00309230.2017.1397718
DO - 10.1080/00309230.2017.1397718
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034634441
SN - 0030-9230
VL - 54
SP - 502
EP - 516
JO - Paedagogica Historica
JF - Paedagogica Historica
IS - 4
ER -