Wendy Fonarow takes a fascinating anthropological view of gig attendance, in an article in today's Guardian. I've been banging on a lot about identity and authenticity in music recently, so this passage struck a particular chord (sorry) with me:

"One of the things going on in music performance compared to theatre is you want people to play themselves. The reason surrounds authenticity. This is a really weird thing because if music is art, then music is artifice - it's made up. But people are always looking for truth in performance and they want this because if the performer is experiencing something true then so is what you're experiencing."

Posted by Hg on Saturday 26 April 2008 at 01:49.
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