Bloomsbury The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place

About the Author Geoff Stahl is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is was an executive member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), and a current editorial board member of the New Zealand Journal of Media Studies. He is author of several books including Understanding Media Studies (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Poor But Sexy: Reflections on Berlin Scenes (Peter Lang, 2014).J Mark Percival is a Senior Lecturer in Media at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland. His areas of interest and publications include local music production, music radio, and representations of popular music with a focus on speed and volume. Product Description Popular music scholars have long been interested in the connection between place and music. This collection brings together a number of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and theories used to explore the relationships between place and music. An interdisciplinary volume, drawing from sociology, geography, ethnomusicology, media, cultural, and communication studies, this book covers a wide-range of topics germane to the production and consumption of place in popular music. Through considerations of changes in technology and the mediascape that have shaped the experience of popular music (vinyl, iPods, social media), the role of social difference and how it shapes sociomusical encounters (queer spaces, gendered and racialised spaces), as well as the construction and representations of place (musical tourism, city branding, urban mythologies), this is an up-to-the-moment overview of central discussions about place and music. The contributors explore a range of contexts, moving from the studio to the stage, the city to the suburb, the bedroom to festival, from nightclub to museum, with each entry highlighting the diverse and complex ways in which music and place are mutually constitutive. Review The latest addition to Bloomsbury's Popular Music Handbook series is a well-conceived and intelligently organized introduction to one of the most interesting areas of contemporary popular music scholarship: the study of musical spaces and places. The editors do an excellent job of arranging a variety of voices and bring together contrasting approaches in a way that makes coherent a topic that is, it seems, limitless! There are essays here on the bedroom, the studio and the record shop; on the toilet circuit of small gigs and the portaloo logistics of large festivals; on French banlieus, South African townships, Brazilian favelas and English suburbia; on musical cities as conceived by policy makers, tourists and musicians; on travelling at home with a Frank Sinatra album and feeling at home in the circuits of the digital universe; on the historical space of heritage and musical nationalism; on experiencing the noise of cities and the sounds of the countryside. This is a rich field of scholarship indeed! - Simon Frith, Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, author of Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (1998) The experience and the forms of music might seem to become ever less tethered to locality, but this collection of essays from many disciplines and countries shows how space cannot but structure sound, from global commodity flows to the banlieu and the bedroom. With succinct chapters providing evocative case studies and quick access to the relevant theoretical literatures, the Handbook will be much appreciated as the primary gateway into researching the variegated geographies of today's popular music. - Arun Saldanha, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, USA, author of Space After Deleuze (Bloomsbury, 2017) This is not another book about the relationship between music and the city. It is not another book about musical cities. Nor is it a book about musical scenes. Fol