Overview
- Evaluates the globalisation of the ‘music city’ as an urban cultural policy paradigm
- Examines the advantages and challenges of adopting music city policies in a range of cities in different geographical contexts
- Argues that local geographical, social and economic contexts and particularities shape the nature of music city policies (or lack thereof) in particular cities
Part of the book series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research (NDCPR)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a critical academic evaluation of the ‘music city’ as a form of urban cultural policy that has been keenly adopted in policy circles across the globe, but which as yet has only been subject to limited empirical and conceptual interrogation. With a particular focus on heritage, planning, tourism and regulatory measures, this book explores how local geographical, social and economic contexts and particularities shape the nature of music city policies (or lack thereof) in particular cities. The book broadens academic interrogation of music cities to include cities as diverse as San Francisco, Liverpool, Chennai, Havana, San Juan, Birmingham and Southampton. Contributors include both academic and professional practitioners and, consequently, this book represents one of the most diverse attempts yet to critically engage with music cities as a global cultural policy concept.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christina Ballico is Head of the Masters of Creative Industries at JMC Academy, Brisbane, Australia. Ballico is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Her research examines music industries and scenes, music cities and cultural policy.
Allan Watson is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Watson has published widely on the geographies of music. He is author of Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio (2014) and co-editor of Rethinking Creative Cities Policy: Invisible Agents and Hidden Protagonists (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Music Cities
Book Subtitle: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept
Editors: Christina Ballico, Allan Watson
Series Title: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35872-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35871-6Published: 13 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35874-7Published: 13 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35872-3Published: 12 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-924X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 194
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Policy and Politics, Global/International Culture, Sociology of Culture