Sound Tracks : Popular Music Identity and Place

ISBN-13: 9780415170277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 336 str.

John Connell; Chris Gibson

Opis

This title traces the relationships between music, space and identity, from inner city scenes to the music of nations, to give a wide-ranging perspective on popular music. It examines the influence of cultures, economics, politics, and technology on the changing structure and geographies of music at local and global levels. Sound Tracks also combines an analysis of changing personal identities - social, ethnic and sexual - with an extended discussion of globalization and local resistance. It takes music from its role as an expression of local culture in indigenous societies, to its gradual evolution towards an incomplete emergence of a global music industry. It also gives particular attention to the complex spread of world music from reggae to zouk and beyond, from their own diverse roots. Migration and ethnic diversity have contributed to hybrid, diasporic sounds, as evident in Algerian rai or in locally distinctive rap sounds. The technology of production and distribution, as music has become a commodity, are set against the apparent specificity of particular scenes, such as those of the Mersey, Dunedin or Seattle sounds.

Recenzje

'This is a really good book, which I enjoyed immensely, and I am confident that it will becomea classic publication in its field. Indeed it contains so much material that it is probably impossible to asorb it all in one reading. It is a book that I look forward to reading again...' - Andrew Leyshon, Progress in Human Geography

Spis treści

Chapter 01 Into the Music; Chapter 02 Music and Place; Chapter 03 Music and Movement; Chapter 04 The Place of Lyrics; Chapter 05 Sounds and Scenes; Chapter 06 Music Communities; Chapter 07 New Worlds; Chapter 08 A World of Flows; Chapter 09 Aural Architecture; Chapter 10 Marketing Place; Chapter 11 Terra Digitalia?; Chapter 12 The Long and Winding Road…;

O autorze

John Connell is Professor and Head of the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney and Chris Gibson is Lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of New South Wales