The Sociable Aesthetics of Amateur Theatre

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Notes

1. Maurice Newbery and Ramon Teñoso, Philippine Theatre UK, unpublished interview with Erin Walcon, 6 June 2015, London.

2. David Crouch, ‘Creativity, Space and Performance’, in Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy, ed. by Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington, and Norma Rantisi (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 129–40 (p. 130).

3. The research team for this project comprises Helen Nicholson (PI), Nadine Holdsworth and Jane Milling (CoIs), Erin Walcon, postdoctoral researcher, and PhD students Cara Gray and Sarah Penny.

4. Georg Simmel, ‘The Sociology of Sociability’, in Simmel on Culture, ed. by David Frisby and Mike Featherstone (London: Sage, 1997), pp. 120–29 (p. 122).

5. Ibid., p. 120.

6. Sarah Pink, Situating Everyday Life: Practices and Places (London: Sage, 2012), p. 38.

7. Ibid., p. 34.

8. Ibid., p. 31.

9. Simmel, ‘The Sociology of Sociability’, p. 121.

10. Ibid., p. 121.

11. Georg Simmel and Everett C. Hughes, ‘The Sociology of Sociability’, American Journal of Sociology, 55.3 (1949), 254–61 (p. 257).

12. Sandra Jovchelovitch and Jacqueline Priego-Hernandez, Underground Sociabilities: Identity, Culture and Resistance in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas (Brasilia: UNESCO, 2013), p. 30.

13. Simmel and Hughes, ‘The Sociology of Sociability’, p. 258.

14. John Beglin, unpublished interview with Erin Walcon, 16 June 2016, London.

15. Eduardo de la Fuente, ‘The Art of Social Forms and the Social Forms of Art: The Sociology–Aesthetics Nexus in Georg Simmel’s Thought’, Sociological Theory, 26 (2008), 344–62 (p. 351).

16. Robert Stebbins, Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2007).

17. Jon Manley, unpublished interview with Erin Walcon, 7 August 2014, Torquay.

18. Eduardo de la Fuente, ‘The Art of Social Forms and the Social Forms of Art: The Sociology-Aesthetics Nexus in Georg Simmel’s Thought’, Sociological Theory, 26.4 (2008), 344–62 (p. 351).

19. Robert Stebbins, ‘The Semiotic Self and Serious Leisure’, The American Sociologist, 42.2–3 (2011), 238–48 (p. 242).

20. Roger Heath, unpublished interview with Erin Walcon, 7 August 2014, Torquay.

21. Manley, unpublished interview; Heath unpublished interview.

22. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. by Richard Nice (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984).

23. See Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).

24. Heath, unpublished interview.

25. Simmel, ‘The Sociology of Sociability’.

26. Manley, unpublished interview.

27. Putnam, Bowling Alone.

28. David Gauntlett, ‘The Value of Connecting: Social Capital and Communities’, in Making Is Connecting: The Social Meaning of Creativity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011), pp. 128–161 (p. 139).

29. Alex Wrightson, unpublished interview with Erin Walcon, 5 March 2015, Birmingham.

30. Ibid.

31. Heath, unpublished interview.

32. Manley, unpublished interview.

33. Georg Simmel, ‘Sociability as the Autonomous Form of Sociation’, in The Sociology of Georg Simmel, ed. by Kurt H. Wolff (New York: The Free Press, 1950), pp. 40–57 (p. 57).

34. De la Fuente, ‘The Art of Social Forms’, p. 351.

35. Monica Lee and Daniel Silver, ‘Simmel’s Law of the Individual and the Ethics of the Relational Self’, Theory, Culture & Society, 29.7–8 (2012), 124–45.

36. Crouch, ‘Creativity, Space and Performance’, p. 129.

37. Crouch, ‘Creativity, Space and Performance’, p. 135.

38. Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (Oxford: Clarendon, 2005), p. 38.

39. Gauntlett, ‘The Value of Connecting’, p. 130.