Music and Urban Geography / Edition 1

by Adam Krims

Overview

Music and Urban Geography is the first book to theorize musical aspects of the tremendous changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over the past few decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography, and historical materialism, Krims maps changes not only in how music represents cities, but also in how music sounds and is deployed socially in new urban contexts. Taking on venerable musicological debates from entirely new perspectives, Krims argues that the cultural-studies approach now predominant in cultural musicology fails to address contemporary realities of production and consumption; instead, the social effects of space and new patterns of urban production play a shaping role, in which music takes on new forms and functions, with representation playing a significant but not always decisive role. While music scholars increasingly concern themselves with place, Krims theorizes it together with the shaping role of space.

Pushing urban geography into new cultural contexts Music and Urban Geography will offer those concerned with the social effects of space newtheoretical models. Ranging from Anonymous 4 to Alanis Morissette, from Curacao to Seattle, this text presents a truly wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, and theoretically ambitious view of both musical and urban change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415970129
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/05/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adam Krims is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Institute for Popular Music at the University of Nottingham, UK. His previous book, Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (2000), was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of the Year.

Table of Contents

1. Defining the Urban Ethos 2. Space, Place, and Popular Music in Curaçao and Elsewhere 3. Mourning the Impossible Libidinal City in Boogie Nights 4. Marxist Music Analysis after Adorno 5. Music for the Design-Intensive City 6. Music for the Design-Intensive City Notes Bibliography Index