1st Edition

Music, Space and Place Popular Music and Cultural Identity

By Andy Bennett Copyright 2004
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction; 1: Music, Space and Place; 1: The musical construction of the diaspora: the case of reggae and Rastafari 1; 2: Who is the 'other' in the Balkans? Local ethnic music as a different source of identities in Bulgaria 1; 3: 'Power-geometry' in motion: space, place and gender in the lyra music of Crete; 4: Interrogating the production of sound and place: the Bristol phenomenon, from Lunatic Fringe to worldwide Massive; 2: Rap and Hip Hop: Community and Cultural Identity; 5: The emergence of rap Cubano: an historical perspective; 6: Doin' damage in my native language: the use of 'resistance vernaculars' in hip hop in Europe and Aotearoa/New Zealand; 7: Rapp'in' the Cape: style and memory, power in community 1; 3: Musical Production and the Politics of Desire; 8: Positioning the producer: gender divisions in creative labour and value; 9: 'Believe': vocoders, digital female identity and camp 1; 10: On performativity and production in Madonna's 'Music'; 11: 'He's Got the Power': the politics of production in girl group music

Biography

Andy Bennett