Books+ Search Results
Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles
Author
Title
Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles.
ISBN
1351160206
9781351160209
Edition
First edition.
Publication
London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource : text file, PDF
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city, and how have connections between the Beatles and Liverpool been forged and contested? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. Firstly, it examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly, and in turn, it considers the specificity of popular music culture and the many diverse ways in which it influences city life and informs the way that the city is thought about, valued and experienced. Cohen highlights popular music's unique role and significance in the making of cities, and illustrates how de-industrialization encouraged efforts to connect popular music to the city, to categorize, claim and promote it as local culture, and harness and mobilize it as a local resource. In doing so, she adopts an approach that recognizes music as a social and symbolic practice encompassing a diversity of roles and characteristics: music as a culture or way of life distinguished by social and ideological conventions; music as sound; speech and discourse about music; and music as a commodity and industry."--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Chapter Introduction / Sara Cohen
chapter 1 Music and the City: Cultural Diversity in a Global Cosmopolis / Sara Cohen
chapter 2 Music as a City Sound: Rock Culture and the Poetics of Loss / Sara Cohen
chapter 3 Music as City Heritage: Decline and Renewal in the Nashville of the North / Sara Cohen
chapter 4 Music as a City Business: Trial, Tribulation and Place in a Labour of Love / Sara Cohen
chapter 5 Music as a City Industry: Haemorrhage, Debt and the Politics of Music Policy-Making / Sara Cohen
chapter 6 Music and City Tourism: Respect, Betrayal and the Haunting of the Beatles / Sara Cohen
chapter 7 Music as a City Quarter: Brands, Noises and Regeneration / Sara Cohen
chapter Conclusion / Sara Cohen.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Popular Culture
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Bookmark As
Citation
