Sound Tracks Popular Music Identity and Place

Name: Sound Tracks Popular Music Identity and Place
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ISBN: 9780415170284

ISBN-10: 0415170281

ISBN-13: 9780415170284

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Connell, Chris Gibson

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Soundtrackstraces 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. Taking music from its role as an expression of local culture in indigenous societies to its gradual evolution towards a global music industry, this work pays particular attention to the complex spread of world music from reggae to zouk and beyond. Containing an impressive and comprehensive range of global case studiesSoundtrackstakes an innovative approach to the complex…

Book details

List price: $82.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/8/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgements



Into the music



Music and place: 'fixing authenticity'



Music and movement: overcoming space



The place of lyrics



Sounds and scenes: a place for music?



Music communities: national identity, ethnicity and place



New worlds: music from the margins?



A world of flows: music, mobility and transnational soundscapes



Aural architecture: the spaces of music



Marketing place: music and tourism



Terra Digitalia? Music, copyright and territory in the information age



The long and winding road...


Bibliography


Index