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Music, Space and Place - Popular Music and Cultural Identity (Hardcover)
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Music, Space and Place - Popular Music and Cultural Identity (Hardcover)
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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 new and exciting 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, where these processes are shaped both by specific
musical practices and by the pressures and dynamics of political
and economic circumstances. Important discourses are explored
concerning national culture and identity, as well as how identity
is constructed through the exchanges that occur between displaced
peoples of the world's many diasporas. Music helps to articulate a
shared sense of community among these dispersed people, carving out
spaces of freedom which are integral to personal and group
consciousness. A specific focal point is the rap and hip hop music
that has contributed towards a particular sense of identity as
indigenous resistance vernaculars for otherwise socially
marginalized minorities in Cuba, France, Italy, New Zealand and
South Africa. New research is also presented on the authorial
presence in production within the domain of the commercially driven
Anglo-American music industry. The issue of authorship and
creativity is tackled alongside matters relating to the production
of musical texts themselves, and demonstrates the gender politics
in pop. 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.
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