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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456933403321

Titolo

Sound, society and the geography of popular music / / edited by Ola Johansson, Thomas L. Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2009, [2021]

ISBN

1-317-05254-4

1-317-05253-6

1-315-60993-2

1-282-34482-X

9786612344824

0-7546-9875-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Altri autori (Persone)

BellThomas L (Thomas Lee)

JohanssonOla <1968->

Disciplina

781.6409

Soggetti

Popular music - Social aspects

Music and geography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I Music, Space, and Political Activism; 2 Geographies of John and Yoko's 1969 Campaign for Peace: An Intersection of Celebrity, Space, Art, and Activism; 3 Scales of Resistance: Billy Bragg and the Creation of Activist Spaces; Part II Tourism and Landscapes of Music; 4 Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in Pilgrimage Landscapes; 5 Ambient Australia: Music, Meditation, and Tourist Places; Part III Mapping Musical Texts

6 A Lesson of Geography, on the Riddim: The Symbolic Topography of Reggae Music7 A Listener's Mental Map of California; Part IV Place in Music/Music in Place; 8 Musical Cartographies: Los Ritmos de los Barrios de la Habana; 9 The City She Loves Me: The Los Angeles of the Red Hot Chili Peppers; 10 The Geography of "Canadian Shield Rock":



Locality, Nationality and Place Imagery in the Music of the Rheostatics; Part V Local Music in a Connected World; 11 Internet Radio and Cultural Connections; 12 Local Independent Music Scenes and the Implications of the Internet

13 Where Are the New US Music Scenes?Part VI The Geography of Genres; 14 Hip Hop: A Postmodern Folk Music; 15 Techno: Music and Entrepreneurship in Post-Fordist Detroit; 16 The Production of Contemporary Christian Music: A Geographical Perspective; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Illustrated by a range of fascinating case studies from the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain, this book presents the latest innovative spatial perspectives on music, in doing, so furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism and politics.