Theorizing Audiency

This is a postprint of a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. It represents the introduction to a themed section (“round table”) that contains three articles, each one examining the context-specific dynamics and theoretical significance of audiency in its own ethnographic case study: •Performance in the Round: Embedded Audiency at Music-Dance Events in Mali (Rainer Polak)•Adjusting to the Other: Audiencing Through Gesture in Karnatak Vocal Lessons (Lara Pearson)•Ubiquitous Audiency: Recorded Music and Attention in Everyday Public-space Encounters in China (Samuel Horlor)