Music, Space and Place

by Whiteley, Sheila; Bennett, Andy; Hawkins, Stan

• ISBN13: 9780754637370
• ISBN10: 0754637379
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Summary

Music, Space and Place examines the urban and rural spaces in which music is experienced, produced and consumed. The editors of this collection have brought together perspectives by international researchers and scholars working in the field of popular music studies. Underpinning all of the contributions is the recognition that musical processes take place within a particular space and place, and are shaped both by the pressures and dynamics of political and economic circumstances.
Underlying Music, Space and Place is the question of how the disciplines informing popular music studies - sociology, musicology, cultural studies, media studies and feminism - have developed within a changing intellectual climate. The book therefore covers a wide range of subject matter in relation to space and place, including community and identity, gender, race, vernaculars, power, performance and production.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Music Examples	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
General Editor's Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Music, Space and Place	p. 2
Rap and Hip Hop: Community and Cultural Identity	p. 8
Musical Production and the Politics of Desire	p. 16
Music, Space and Place
The musical construction of the diaspora: the case of reggae and Rastafari	p. 25
Who is the 'other' in the Balkans? Local ethnic music as a different source of identities in Bulgaria	p. 42
'Power-geometry' in motion: space, place and gender in the lyra music of Crete	p. 55
Interrogating the production of sound and place: the Bristol phenomenon, from Lunatic Fringe to worldwide Massive	p. 66
Rap and Hip Hop: Community and Cultural Identity
The emergence of rap Cubano: an historical perspective	p. 89
Doin' damage in my native language: the use of 'resistance vernaculars' in hip hop in Europe and Aotearoa/New Zealand	p. 108
Rapp'in' the Cape: style and memory, power in community	p. 124
Musical Production and the Politics of Desire
Positioning the producer: gender divisions in creative labour and value	p. 149
'Believe': vocoders, digital female identity and camp	p. 163
On performativity and production in Madonna's 'Music'	p. 180
'He's Got the Power: the politics of production in girl group music	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 213
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