Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine market segments within the broader category of occasional patrons of the performing arts. While similarities between these segments exist, important distinctions are also apparent. Design/methodology/approach - The authors surveyed 347 performing...

If histories of television recognize it all, the relationship between punk subculture and the mass cultural medium of television is often rendered as a story of misrepresentation, conflict, or mutual avoidance. Such studies overlook a rich history of punks throughout North America who produced...

The merger of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) in March 2012 was the culmination of a thirty-two year struggle to bring the two powerful Hollywood performers' unions together. As a response to larger trends in the media industries,...

In California, Indigenous hinterlands served as places of opportunity and safe harbor for Native people responding to colonization during the Mission Period (1769-1830s) and afterward. Even as Native communities visited Spanish missions in the San Francisco Bay Area, their long-standing traditions...

The aim of the article is to investigate the sector of cinema distribution in Poland, especially to identify the degree of concentration within the Polish film distribution market, and to evaluate the effects of the Hollywood dominant position in distribution on the performance of national...

There is an emerging literature on research interviews to inform arts projects, but little on opera. This case study illustrates how research data informed an opera on Veteran recovery. Deidentified interviews were selected from 280 adults with a history of depression at 10-year follow-up to a...

Film and music are key concerns in human geography. But rarely has film music been considered. Here, the scores of James Horner (1953-2015), one of the most successful Hollywood composers of recent decades, are used to explore future directions in the geographies of music. Through engagement with...

A significant amount of previous academic research into popular music museums centres on critiques of the content, design and layout of predominantly authorised institutions. Throughout much of this research, authors consistently criticise the use, or rather, the perceived misuse, of music played...

This paper discusses Los Angeles as the best-known celluloid city in the world, and focuses particularly on the close relationship between its attractiveness for tourists and the film industry. For almost a century Los Angeles has exerted influence over the collective imagination as the mecca of ...

The Palo Alto Art Center sought a solution to the challenge that loyal family audiences, visiting weekly for art studio classes, rarely visit the contemporary art exhibition galleries. This article relates the experience of using the human-centered design process, often called Design Thinking, as...