Music, Space and Place
Subtitle: Popular Music and Cultural Identity (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Contributors: Sheila Whiteley (Editor); Andy Bennett (Editor); Stan Hawkins (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780754637370
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Cultural studies; Popular culture; History & Criticism - General; Music/Songbooks; Music; Social aspects; Popular music; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History and criticism; Rap (Music)
First sentence: Whether they look for remembrance or forgetting, individuals and societies always build a continuity into which they can inscribe themselves, especially when this continuity has been rendered difficult by a historical or geographical rupture, as it has for people said to be 'in diaspora': for them, history is no longer a continuous flow expressed by an uninterrupted transmission, but it becomes a time broken into before and after; and familiar places, in which history is spontaneously rooted, are not inhabited day after day, but are replaced by an imaginary 'elsewhere' that dwells in memory.