Full Description
This book is the second installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music. Music has generated substantial interest among geographers, but other academic disciplines have also developed related spatial perspectives on music. This trilogy brings together multiple approaches, each book investigating a bundle of interrelated themes. New Geographies of Music 2: Music in Urban Tourism, Heritage Policies and Place-making starts by exploring contemporary approaches to the study of popular music, as well as the relations existing between music, tourism, heritage and urban geography. The chapters address a range of issues, including how music shapes the "feel" of touristic towns and urban public spaces, how music scenes have an increasing role in heritage and tourism policies, and how this recognition of music has consequences on artistic practices and urban imaginaries. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between space and music.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Approaching the spatiality of popular music through geographical and interdisciplinary perspectives.- Chapter 2.Music in surf town typology: Alternative spaces of a subculture.- Chapter 3. Street Piano: An Instrument of Urban Change.- Chapter 4.Tango music: between heritage and transnational resources. The geographies of tango in or from Buenos Aires..- Chapter 5.Taking music to the (museum) masses: Museum engagement with the country and grunge music heritages of Nashville and Seattle.- Chapter 6. The hidden music city: the role of music tourism imaginaries in the regeneration of Detroit.
