Sounds and the City [electronic resource] : Popular Music, Place and Globalization /
Lashua, B.editor.
Spracklen, K.editor.
Wagg, S.editor.
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Sounds and the City; Part I: Cities of Origin?; 1 Heart of the Country? The Construction of Nashville as the Capital of Country Music; 2 Birmingham's Postindustrial Metal; 3 Black and Brown Get Down: Cultural Politics, Chicano Music, and Hip Hop in Racialized Los Angeles; 4 Juidos 'n' Decaf Italians: Irony, Blasphemy, and Jewish Shtick; Part II: Consumption, Hybridization, and Globalization
5 'Why I Decided to Pretend I was American, I Will Never Know': Rock 'n' Roll and 'The Sixties' in an English Town6 Tamla Motown in the UK: Transatlantic Reception of American Rhythm and Blues; 7 'How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?' Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music, and the 'Clash of Civilizations'; 8 Indieglobalization and the Triumph of Punk in Indonesia; 9 Sounds of a 'Rotting City': Punk in Russia's Arctic Hinterland; 10 True Norwegian Black Metal - The Globalized, Mythological Reconstruction of the Second Wave of Black Metal in 1990s Oslo
11 Continental Drift: The Politics and Poetics of African Hip Hop12 One Day on Earth: Music, Documentary Film-Making, and Global Soundscapes; 13 Intersecting Rhythms: The Spatial Production of Local Canadian Heavy Metal and Urban Aboriginal Hip Hop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Part III: Music, Heritage, and Urban Policy; 14 Reconstruction's Soundtrack; 15 We're Going to Graceland: Globalization and the Reimagining of Memphis; 16 Characterizing the Cold War: Music and Memories of Berlin, 1960-1989; 17 Outback Elvis: Musical Creativity in Rural Australia
18 In Search of 'Independent' Brisbane: Music, Memory, and Cultural HeritageAfterword: Reflections on Popular Music, Place, and Globalization; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters, discography and index.
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.
Music.
Sociology, Urban.
Culture
Culture.
Sports
Popular culture
Music.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Cultural Studies.