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O'Sullivan, Terry
(2009).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10253860903063220
Abstract
This study examines the nature of communal consumption in the context of audience experience of the performing arts. Building on existing literature on consumption communities and ritualistic perspectives on shared event-based consumption, it uses focus groups and participant observation to investigate the experience of members of a UK symphony orchestra's audience as a consuming community (a 'consumity' in short). It finds tensions between respondents' perceptions of their individual and collective experience, framed within a pervasive anxiety about the sustainability of both audience and art form. It concludes that the communal aspect of audience experience is more complex and inflected than current notions of shared consumption acknowledge, in particular with respect to the audience's sense of itself over time. It concludes by questioning the absence from current arts marketing discourse of a more integrated view of the experience of customers in a temporal context.
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- Item ORO ID
- 25591
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1477-223X
- Keywords
- audience; classical music; consumption community; consumity; focus groups
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Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business > Department for Strategy and Marketing
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) - Copyright Holders
- © 2009 Taylor & Francis
- Depositing User
- Terry O'Sullivan