Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptualising and researching audience experience -- 3 Contemporary classical music and its audiences -- 4 Who and why? Demographics and motivations to attend -- 5 CCM as high art subculture: audience tastes and perceptions -- 6 The social and the aesthetic I: musical expertise and experiences with live CCM -- 7 The social and the aesthetic II: aesthetic experience and CCM
8 CCM and audience participation: a case study -- 9 Institution-audience relationships in CCM culture -- 10 'Written without regard to the audience': classical music attendees on CCM -- 11 Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Methodological appendix -- Appendix 2: Survey questionnaires -- Appendix 3: Supplementary tables -- Appendix 4: Supplementary figures -- Appendix 5: Full list of works performed at the survey concerts -- Index