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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484619803321

Autore

Baker Andrea

Titolo

The Great Music City : Exploring Music, Space and Identity / / by Andrea Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-96352-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 pages)

Collana

Pop Music, Culture and Identity, , 2634-6613

Disciplina

780.07

Soggetti

Music

Culture

Popular Culture

Communication

Global/International Culture

Media and Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1960s, as gentrification took hold of New York City, Jane Jacobs predicted that the city would become the true player in the global system. Indeed, in the 21st century more meaningful comparisons can be made between cities than between nations and states. Based on case studies of Melbourne, Austin and Berlin, this book is the first in-depth study to combine academic and industry analysis of the music cities phenomenon. Using four distinctly defined algorithms as benchmarks, it interrogates Richard Florida’s creative cities thesis and applies a much-needed synergy of urban sociology and musicology to the concept, mediated by a journalism lens. Building on seminal work by Robert Park, Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs, it argues that journalists are the cultural branders and street theorists whose ethnographic approach offers critical insights into the urban sociability of music activity.