The Great Music City: Exploring Music, Space and Identity (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)

by Andrea Baker (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2019

  $122.73

  This book offers an in-depth and global study of the 'music cities paradigm', a phenomenon that sheds light on the relationship between music, space and identity. Building on case studies from Melbourne, Austin and Berlin, Andrea Baker offers an interdisciplinary study blending musicology, urban studies, journalism studies and sociology. It stresses that connecting music cities together, and examining their strengths and weaknesses, illustrates a cultural diplomacy, or 'soft power' across international boundaries. The text effectively explores how 'music cities' work in real life, and what processes, practices and principles can both deaden this attribute as well as rejuvenate the economic, social and cultural vitality of the cities.