Musical Spaces Place, Performance, and Power

Part I

(Trans)local Musical Spaces

1. Musical Spaces and Deep Regionalism in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Jonathon Grasse

2. ‘Trapped in Oklahoma’: Bible Belt Affect and DIY Punk

Alican Koc

3. Musical Pathways through Algerian-London

Stephen Wilford

4. Dancing to the Hotline Bling in the Old Bazaars of Tehran

Shabnam Goli

Regionality in Learning and Heritage

5. Performing Local Music: Engaging with Regional Musical Identities through Higher Education and Research

Daithí Kearney

6. Preserving Cultural Identity: Learning Music and Performing Heritage in a Tibetan Refugee School

James Williams

7. Claiming Back the Arctic: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Music as a Voice for the Indigenous Subaltern

Kiara Wickremasinghe

Music and Spatial Imaginaries

8. ‘He Is a Piece of Granite…’: Landscape and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden

Anne Macgregor

9. War, Folklore, and Circumstance: Dimitri Shostakovich’s Greek Songs in Transnational Historical Context

Artemis Ignatidou

10. ‘O Monstrous! O Strange!’: Culture, Nature, and the Places of Music in the Mexican Sotavento

Diego Astorga de Ita

11. Journeys to Plastic Beach: Navigations across the Virtual Ocean to Gorillaz’ Fictional Island

Alex Jeffery

Part II

Music-Making Environments

12. Person-Environment Relationships: Influences beyond Acoustics in Musical Performance

James Edward Armstrong

13. The Social and Spatial Basis of Musical Joy: Folk Orc as Special Refuge and Everyday Ritual

Thomas Graves

14. Echoes of Mongolia’s Sensory Landscape in Shurankhai’s ‘Harmonized’ Urtyn Duu

Sunmin Yoon

Designing Creative Spaces

15. Staging Ariodante: Cultural Cartographies and Dialogical Performance

Benjamin Davis

16. Musicians in Place and Space: The Impact of a Spatialized Model of Improvised Music Performance

David Leahy

17. Space, Engagement, and Immersion: From La Monte Young and Terry Riley to Contemporary Practice

Joanne Mills

Musical Spaces and Power

18. Micronational Spaces: Rethinking Politics in Contemporary Music Festivals

Jelena Gligorijević

19. Construction of  Protest Space through Chanting in the Egyptian Revolution (2011): Musical Dimensions of a Political Subject

Oscar Galeev

20. Bethlem, Music, and Sound as Biopower in Seventeenth-Century London

Joseph Nelson

Epilogue: Towards More Geographic Musicologies

James Williams

Biography

James Williams is an ethnomusicologist and senior lecturer at the University of Derby, UK. His PhD, from the University of Wolverhampton, UK (2016), focused on the collaborative and creative interactions between professional musicians, while his current research concerns behavioural, socio-cultural, and creative processes in wellbeing and education.

Samuel Horlor is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Ethnomusicology, Yunnan University, China. He specialises in research on street performance, Chinese pop, and music in urban life. Samuel is the author of Chinese Street Music: Complicating Musical Community (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and articles in journals including Ethnomusicology Forum and Asian Music.