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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place, Paperback / softback Book

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place Paperback / softback

Edited by Geoff (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Stahl, J. Mark (Queen Margaret University, Scotland) Percival

Part of the Bloomsbury Handbooks series

Paperback / softback

Description

Popular music scholars have long been interested in the connection between place and music.

This collection brings together a number of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and theories used to explore the relationships between place and music.

An interdisciplinary volume, drawing from sociology, geography, ethnomusicology, media, cultural, and communication studies, this book covers a wide-range of topics germane to the production and consumption of place in popular music.

Through considerations of changes in technology and the mediascape that have shaped the experience of popular music (vinyl, iPods, social media), the role of social difference and how it shapes sociomusical encounters (queer spaces, gendered and racialised spaces), as well as the construction and representations of place (musical tourism, city branding, urban mythologies), this is an up-to-the-moment overview of central discussions about place and music.

The contributors explore a range of contexts, moving from the studio to the stage, the city to the suburb, the bedroom to festival, from nightclub to museum, with each entry highlighting the diverse and complex ways in which music and place are mutually constitutive.

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