Sounds and the City : Popular Music, Place and Globalization
ISBN: 9781137283115
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Fine Arts;

This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.


Steven Lee Beeber, Lesley University, USAAndy Bennett, Griffith University, AustraliaJohn Connell, University of Sydney, AustraliaAndrew Flory, Carleton College, USAKaren Fox, University of Alberta, CanadaChris Gibson, University of Wollongong, AustraliaAnthony Macías, University of California, USAJoseph Minadeo, PatternBased Music, USADiane Pecknold, University of Louisville, USAHilary Pilkington, University of Manchester, UKEric Porter, University of California, USAGabrielle Riches, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKIan Rogers, Griffith University, AustraliaWanda Rushing, University of Memphis, USAP. Kahlil Saucier, Rhode Island College, USAJohn Schofield, University of Turku, FinlandJeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USADeena Weinstein, DePaul University, USA
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