Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword: Audiencing -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to musicians and their audiences -- Part 1 Conceptualising the audience-performer engagement -- 1 In the body of the audience -- 2 Observing musicians/audience interaction in North Indian classical music performance -- 3 'One step above the ornamental greenery': a survivor's guide to playing to an audience who does not listen -- Part 2 Live relationships: negotiations of performance -- 4 Contemporary British jazz musicians' relationship with the audience: renditions of we-relations and intersubjectivity -- 5 Performer-audience interaction in live concerts: ritual or conversation? -- 6 Refiguring Maltese heritage through musical performance: audience complicity and the role of venues in Etnika's stage shows -- Part 3 Technological mediations: the virtual and the material -- 7 Authenticity and liveness in digital DJ performance -- 8 That's me in the spotlight: audiences and musicians on screen -- 9 'Soon you'll wish they would shut up!': the digitised political voices of music stars and their audiences in recession Greece -- Part 4 Off-stage discourses and the power of fandom -- 10 'Where are the girls of the old brigade?': Vesta Tilley and her female audience in correspondence -- 11 From secret fantasies to social systems: re-reading Starlust as a portrait of the dedicated popular music audience -- Afterword: 'Moved to the point where she could no longer contain herself': Ellington and audience interaction at the Newport Jazz Festival -- Bibliography -- Index