Musical performance and the changing city : post-industrial contexts in Europe and the United States

Musical performance and the changing city : post-industrial contexts in Europe and the United States / edited by Fabian Holt and Carsten Wergin.

This book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction among social groups, commercial entrepreneurs, an...

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Other Authors: Holt, Fabian, Wergin, Carsten
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge research in music ; 4.
Subjects:
Popular music > Social aspects > Europe.
Popular music > Social aspects > United States.
Popular music > History and criticism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Music.
Popular music
Popular music > Social aspects
Musique populaire > Aspect social > Europe.
Musique populaire > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Europe
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • "From the big dig to the big gig" : live music, urban regeneration and social change in the European Capital of Culture 2008 / Sara Cohen
  • Sounding Austin : live music, race, and the selling of a city / Caroline Polk O'Meara, and Eliot M. Tretter
  • Sounding out the Cuban diaspora in Barcelona : music, migration and the urban experience / Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros
  • Destination "three days awake" : cultural urbanism at a popular music festival outside the city / Carsten Wergin
  • Digital underground : musical spaces and micro-scenes in the post-industrial city / David Grazian
  • The advent of rock clubs for the gentry : Berlin, Copenhagen, and New York / Fabian Holt
  • Collectivities and mixed-mediations in Amsterdam's translocal jazz scene / Kristin McGee
  • The quality of mutuality : jazz musicians in the Athenian popular music industry / Ioannis Tsioulakis
  • Crowd solidarity on the dance floor in Paris and Berlin / Luis-Manuel Garcia
  • The sound culture of dubstep in London / Christoph Brunner
  • The networking logic of the post-industrial music milieu : a city of London ethnographic moment / Peter Webb.

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