Soundtracks: Popular Music,Identity and Place

John Connell, Chris Gibson9780415170284, 0415170281

Soundtracks traces the relationships between music, space and identity-from inner city ‘scenes’ to the music of nations-to give a wide-ranging perspective on popular music. It examines the influence of cultures, economics, politics and technology on the changing structure and geographies of music at local and global levels. Taking music from its role as an expression of local culture in indigenous societies to its gradual evolution towards a global music industry, this work pays particular attention to the complex spread of world music from reggae to zouk and beyond. Containing an impressive and comprehensive range of global case studies Soundtracks takes an innovative approach to the complex and changing relationships between music and space to provide a genuine global assessment of the power and pleasure of popular music in its many forms.

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Table of contents :
EEn……Page 1
Front Cover……Page 2
Back Cover……Page 3
TOC……Page 6
Illustrations……Page 7
Preface……Page 8
Acknowledgements……Page 11
1 – Into the Music……Page 12
2 – Music and Place – ‘Fixing authenticity’……Page 30
3 – Music and Movement – Overcoming space……Page 56
4 – The Place of Lyrics……Page 82
5 – Sounds and Scenes – A place for music?……Page 101
6 – Music Communities – National identity, ethnicity and place……Page 128
7 – New Worlds – Music from the margins?……Page 155
8 – A World of Flows – Music, mobility and transnational soundscapes……Page 171
9 – Aural Architecture – The spaces of music……Page 203
10 – Marketing Place – Music and tourism……Page 232
11 – Terra Digitalia? – Music, copyright and territory in the information age……Page 262
12 – The Long and Winding Road………Page 281
Bibliography……Page 293
Index……Page 318