The Place of Music

Music is omnipresent in human society, but its language can no longer be regarded as transcendent or universal. Like other art forms, music is produced and consumed within complex economic, cultural, and political frameworks in different places and at different historical moments. Taking an explicitly spatial approach, this unique interdisciplinary text explores the role played by music in the formation and articulation of geographical imaginations--local, regional, national, and global. Contributors show how music's facility to be recorded, stored, and broadcast; to be performed and received in private and public; and to rouse intense emotional responses for individuals and groups make it a key force in the definition of a place. Covering rich and varied terrain--from Victorian England, to 1960s Los Angeles, to the offices of Sony and Time-Warner and the landscapes of the American Depression--the volume addresses such topics as the evolution of musical genres, the globalization of music production and marketing, alternative and hybridized music scenes as sites of localized resistance, the nature of soundscapes, and issues of migration and national identity.


Author: Andrew Leyshon
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 03/21/1998
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.93h x 5.97w x 0.98d
ISBN13: 9781572303140
ISBN10: 157230314X
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Reference
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Music | History & Criticism | General

About the Author
Andrew Leyshon, PhD, is Reader in Geography at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

David Matless, PhD, is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

George Revill, PhD, is Lecturer in Geography at Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom.

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