246 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
246 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Music and Urban Geography is the first book to theorize musical aspects of the tremendous changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over the past few decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography, and historical materialism, Krims maps changes not only in how music represents cities, but also in how music sounds and is deployed socially in new urban... Read more
1. Defining the Urban Ethos 2. Space, Place, and Popular Music in Curaçao and Elsewhere 3. Mourning the Impossible Libidinal City in Boogie Nights 4. Marxist Music Analysis after Adorno 5. Music for the Design-Intensive City 6. Music for the Design-Intensive City Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Adam Krims is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Institute for Popular Music at the University of Nottingham, UK. His previous book, Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (2000), was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of the Year.
