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A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction among social groups, commercial entrepreneur
List of contents
Section I: Place-Making 1. "From the Big Dig to the Big Gig": Live Music, Urban Regeneration and Social Change in the European Capital of Culture 2008 2. Sounding Austin: Live Music, Race, and the Selling of a City 3. Sounding out the Cuban Diaspora in Barcelona: Music, Migration and the Urban Experience 4. Destination ‘Three Days Awake’: Cultural Urbanism at a Popular Music Festival Outside the City Section II: Scenes and Venues 5. Digital Underground: Musical Spaces and Microscenes in the Post-industrial City 6. The Advent of Rock Clubs for the Gentry: Berlin, Copenhagen, and New York 7. Collectivities and Mixed-Mediations in Amsterdam’s Translocal Jazz Scene 8. The Quality of Mutuality: Jazz Musicians in the Athenian Popular Music Industry Section III: Nightlife 9. Crowd Solidarity on the Dancefloor in Paris and Berlin 10. The Sound Culture of Dubstep in London 11. The Networking Logic of the Post-industrial Music Milieu: A City of London Ethnographic Moment
About the author
Fabian Holt is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies at the University of Roskilde, Denmark
Carsten Wergin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany.
Summary
A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction among social groups, commercial entrepreneur
