Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Knowing and Measuring the Audience Experience
Jennifer Radbourne, Hilary Glow and Katya Johanson
Chapter 2: “Live at a Cinema Near You”: How Audiences Respond to Digital Streaming of the Arts
Martin Barker
Chapter 3: Challenging Cultural Authority: A Case Study in Participative Audience Engagement
Hilary Glow
Chapter 4: All the World’s a Stage: Venues and Settings, and Their Role in Shaping Patterns of Arts Participation
Alan Brown
Chapter 5: In the Context of Their Lives: How Audience Members Make Sense of Performing Arts Experiences
Lois-Foreman Wernet and Brenda Dervin
Chapter 6: Amateurs as Audiences: Reciprocal Relationships between Playing and Listening to Music
Stephanie E. Pitts
Chapter 7: The Longer Experience: Theatre for Young Audiences and Enhancing Engagement
Matthew Reason
Chapter 8: Innovative Methods of Inquiry into Arts Engagement
Lisa Baxter, Daragh O’Reilly and Elizabeth Carnegie
Chapter 9: Structure and Aesthetics in Audience Responses to Dance
Kim Vincs
Chapter 10: Converging with Audiences
Jennifer Radbourne
Chapter 11: Listening to the Audience: Methods for a New Era of Audience Research
Katya Johanson
Index