The Shared Experience of the Nineteenth-Century Café-Concert
The history of the café-concert is associated with the industrial development of music, but the very specific relationships between artists and spectators have been studied less often. The model in place in these establishments allows for a great deal of freedom for both performers and the audience, whose pleasure derives, in large part, from the continuous interaction. More than a performance, it is a lived and shared experience, with no real boundary between stage and public.