Sound tracks : popular music, identity, and place / John Connell and Chris Gibson.

By:

Connell, John, 1946-

Contributor(s):

Gibson, Chris, 1973-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical geographies ; 17.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0415170273
9780415170277
0415170281
9780415170284
0203448391
9780203448397
9781134699131
1134699131
9781134699087
1134699085
9781134699124
1134699123
0203269292
9780203269299
1280106425
9781280106422

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sound tracks.DDC classification:

781.63/09 21

LOC classification:

ML3918.P67 C66 2003

Other classification:

24.65

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Contents:

Into the music -- Music and place : 'fixing authenticity' -- Music and movement : overcoming space -- The place of lyrics -- Sounds and scenes : a place for music? -- Music communities : national identity, ethnicity, and place -- New worlds : music from the margins? -- A world of flows : music, mobility, and transnational soundscapes -- Aural architecture : the spaces of music -- Marketing place : music and tourism -- Terra Digitalia? : music, copyright, and territory in the information age -- The long and winding road--

Review: "Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music, examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on local, national and global scenes, from the 'Mersey' and 'Icelandic' sounds to 'world music', and explores the diverse meanings of music in a range of regional contexts." "Sound Tracks traces the ways in which music has informed complex globalisations, the role of companies and technology in diffusion, innovation and commercialism and the wider significance of cultural industries. It links migration and mobility to new musical practices, whether in 'developing' countries of metropolitan centres, and traces the recent rise of 'music tourism'. It examines issues of authenticity and credibility, and the quest for roots within different musical genres, from buskers to brass bands, and from rap to rai. Sound Tracks emphasises music's contributions to the contradictions, illusions and celebrations of contemporary life. It situates music and the music industry within spatial theories of globalisation and local change: fixity and fluidity entangled." "In a world of intensified globalisation, links between space, music and identity are increasingly tenuous, yet places give credibility to music, not least in the 'country', and music is commonly linked to place, through claims to tradition, 'authenticity' and originality, and as a marketing device. This book develops new perspectives on these relationships and how they are situated within cultural and geographical thought."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-306) and index.

"Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music, examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on local, national and global scenes, from the 'Mersey' and 'Icelandic' sounds to 'world music', and explores the diverse meanings of music in a range of regional contexts." "Sound Tracks traces the ways in which music has informed complex globalisations, the role of companies and technology in diffusion, innovation and commercialism and the wider significance of cultural industries. It links migration and mobility to new musical practices, whether in 'developing' countries of metropolitan centres, and traces the recent rise of 'music tourism'. It examines issues of authenticity and credibility, and the quest for roots within different musical genres, from buskers to brass bands, and from rap to rai. Sound Tracks emphasises music's contributions to the contradictions, illusions and celebrations of contemporary life. It situates music and the music industry within spatial theories of globalisation and local change: fixity and fluidity entangled." "In a world of intensified globalisation, links between space, music and identity are increasingly tenuous, yet places give credibility to music, not least in the 'country', and music is commonly linked to place, through claims to tradition, 'authenticity' and originality, and as a marketing device. This book develops new perspectives on these relationships and how they are situated within cultural and geographical thought."--Jacket.

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