The beneficial effects of music on the health and well-being of participants are well known, but what about its effect on local communities? A new report on the impact of music on local communities, authored by SPARC director Professor Stephanie Pitts, is launched today. Working in conjunction with a leading …
We’re excited to see that our Understanding Audiences for Contemporary Arts (UACA) project has been recognised recently by two leading industry publications. You can read the article in Arts Professional (the UK’s arts management journal for industry professionals) here, and read about UACA in The Stage (the world’s longest-running publication for the performing arts industry) here. …
Dr Jonathan Gross (a former post-doctoral research associate at SPARC) has co-authored a new report that calls for ‘everyday creativity’ to be taken seriously. Only 8% of people make regular use of publicly funded art, but every day people are getting creative by making their own versions of culture. Towards Cultural …
SPARC is happy to announce the publication of a new article by Prof. Stephanie Pitts (SPARC Director) and Dr Jonathan Gross in the online journal Arts and the Market: “ ‘Audience exchange’: cultivating peer-to-peer dialogue at unfamiliar arts events” The paper demonstrates the usefulness of the “audience exchange” approach for audience development …
We are delighted to announce that IMR/SPARC Fellow Michael Bonshor’s latest article is out now in Research Studies in Music Education, on the topic of ‘Conductor feedback and the amateur singer: The role of criticism and praise in building choral confidence’. You can access the article here.
A themed special section of the online journal Participations, guest edited by Professor Stephanie E. Pitts (SPARC Director, and UACA Principal Investigator), has just been published. The section’s theme is ‘Knowledge Exchange’ and among the interesting and diverse contributions is an article by Dr Sarah Price (Research Associate, UACA) and Dr Fay Hield, ‘”Old Adam was …
The first issue of Journal of Popular Music Education, edited by Gareth Dylan Smith and Bryan Powell, has launched and includes an article by Lucy Dearn and Stephanie Pitts on ‘(Un)popular music and young audiences’. This work draws on Lucy’s PhD study in which she took young people to classical …
A new paper from SPARC Honorary Research Fellow Dr Michael Bonshor is out now in the International Journal of Community Music. Michael’s research considers the social benefits of choral singing, and the ways in which communities of expertise build up within choirs to increase the confidence of their members. He’s …
IMR/SPARC Fellow Michael Bonshor’s latest article is out in Psychology of Music, on the topic of ‘Confidence and choral configuration: The affective impact of situational and acoustic factors in amateur choirs’ http://pom.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/10/06/0305735616669996.abstract?papetoc Stephanie Pitts has contributed to a new article in the International Journal of Music Education, the result of a fortuitous collaboration between Eli Hardcastle, …
Stephanie Pitts is editing a themed special issue of Participations on the topic of ‘knowledge exchange’, exploring the potential and challenges of partnership working for academics, arts organisations and audiences. Proposals are due by Friday 23rd September: please read the full Call for Papers here – and pass it on to other …