Musicians as fans of the audience. Images of the concert public and the media audience Cover Image

Музикантите като фенове на публиката. Образи на концертната публика и медийната аудитория
Musicians as fans of the audience. Images of the concert public and the media audience

Author(s): Zhana Popova
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Social Sciences, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Music, Visual Arts, Civil Society, Communication studies, Sociology, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Oral history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: estrada musicians; Bulgarian estrada music; media; concert public; media audience

Summary/Abstract: The research of the media publications and TV shows after 1989 with the participation of a certain group of musicians - the artists making Estrada - shows that there is an area where the power of the audience is a necessity that preserves the power of the author. The Estrada musicians describe their audience as a ‘good person’ or a child, they need to teach how to recognize valuable music. In the period 1990 - 2017 the musicians draw a couple of key images of the audience: the weddings audience, the parents and the child in the audience, the supranational symbol, the constantly reminded image of the “phenomenon soviet audience”. A key finding of the research is that the musicians clearly distinguish between “concert audience” and “media audience” as imaginary communities.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 30-47
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bulgarian