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Sounds and the City

Popular Music, Place and Globalization

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Brett Lashua

    1. Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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  2. Karl Spracklen

    1. Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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  3. Stephen Wagg

    1. Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Sounds and the City

    1. Introduction: Sounds and the City

      • Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, Karl Spracklen
      Pages 1-15

  4. Consumption, Hybridization, and Globalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. ‘Why I Decided to Pretend I was American, I Will Never Know’: Rock ‘n’ Roll and ‘The Sixties’ in an English Town

      • Stephen Wagg
      Pages 93-112

    3. Tamla Motown in the UK: Transatlantic Reception of American Rhythm and Blues

      • Andrew Flory
      Pages 113-127

    4. ‘How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?’ Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music, and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’

      • Stephen Wagg
      Pages 128-147

    5. Indieglobalization and the Triumph of Punk in Indonesia

      • Jeremy Wallach
      Pages 148-161

    6. Sounds of a ‘Rotting City’: Punk in Russia’s Arctic Hinterland

      • Hilary Pilkington
      Pages 162-182

    7. True Norwegian Black Metal — The Globalized, Mythological Reconstruction of the Second Wave of Black Metal in 1990s Oslo

      • Karl Spracklen
      Pages 183-195

    8. Continental Drift: The Politics and Poetics of African Hip Hop

      • Paul Khalil Saucier
      Pages 196-208

    9. One Day on Earth: Music, Documentary Film-Making, and Global Soundscapes

      • Brett Lashua, Joseph Minadeo
      Pages 209-224

    10. Intersecting Rhythms: The Spatial Production of Local Canadian Heavy Metal and Urban Aboriginal Hip Hop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

      • Karen M. Fox, Gabrielle Riches
      Pages 225-240

  5. Music, Heritage, and Urban Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Reconstruction’s Soundtrack

      • Eric Porter
      Pages 243-257

    3. We’re Going to Graceland: Globalization and the Reimagining of Memphis

      • Wanda Rushing
      Pages 258-272
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"Through research on Berlin, New York, Nashville, New Orleans, Los Angeles and beyond, this book shows how much there is to learn about the relationship between popular music and cities. It also includes fascinating discussion on places that have not been so commonly associated with popular music, including rural Australia and the Russian arctic, middle England and the Middle East. Sounds and the City will be an important addition to reading lists for those interested not only in music and cities but also in the geographical and global circulations of popular music and in cultural heritage and cultural memory, local identity and social change." - Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

    Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, Stephen Wagg

About the editors

Steven Lee Beeber, Lesley University, USA Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia John Connell, University of Sydney, Australia Andrew Flory, Carleton College, USA Karen Fox, University of Alberta, Canada Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong, Australia Anthony Macías, University of California, USA Joseph Minadeo, PatternBased Music, USA Diane Pecknold, University of Louisville, USA Hilary Pilkington, University of Manchester, UK Eric Porter, University of California, USA Gabrielle Riches, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Ian Rogers, Griffith University, Australia Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis, USA P. Kahlil Saucier, Rhode Island College, USA John Schofield, University of Turku, Finland Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA Deena Weinstein, DePaul University, USA

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