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Engaging With Objects and Feelings: The Making of Live Music Space in Shanghai’s Livehouses

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  • Mengyu Luo
  • Jian Xiao
  • Wenyu Zhong

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Livehouse is a small venue for live music performance, a term commonly used in the Asian context. This article adopts an insider’s perspective to look at the connections between livehouse and its audiences. Instead of treating spaces and objects as silent textures of live music experiences, we regard livehouse as an active site filled with ideas and feelings. The meaning of livehouse is made by audiences through both human and non-human agents and extends to the broader social and cultural context of Shanghai. By highlighting the power of things and networking in between, this article combines the affordance theory to illustrate the experiential dimensions and interpretive processes of livehouse audiences in Shanghai. Drawing on ethnographic data from 26 in-depth interviews and participant observation, we conclude the social, cultural, and emotional affordances of livehouses perceived through tangible and intangible objects and settings.

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  • Mengyu Luo & Jian Xiao & Wenyu Zhong, 2022. "Engaging With Objects and Feelings: The Making of Live Music Space in Shanghai’s Livehouses," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(3), pages 21582440221, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:12:y:2022:i:3:p:21582440221123914
    DOI: 10.1177/21582440221123914
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