Sounds and the City

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

3. Cities of Origin?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Heart of the Country? The Construction of Nashville as the Capital of Country Music

      • Diane Pecknold

      Pages 19-37

   3. Birmingham’s Postindustrial Metal

      • Deena Weinstein

      Pages 38-54

   4. Black and Brown Get Down: Cultural Politics, Chicano Music, and Hip Hop in Racialized Los Angeles

      • Anthony Macías

      Pages 55-75

   5. Juidos ‘n’ Decaf Italians: Irony, Blasphemy, and Jewish Shtick

      • Steven Lee Beeber

      Pages 76-90

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

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.

• African
• Berlin
• cities
• composing
• consumption
• creativity
• cultural heritage
• culture
• documentary film
• globalisation
• hybridity
• politics
• reconstruction
• recording
• Russia

"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

• Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

  Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, Stephen Wagg

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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