Research Catalog

Title

Sounds and the city : popular music, place, and globalization / edited by Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, and Stephen Wagg, Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lashua, Brett
• Spracklen, Karl
• Wagg, Stephen

Description

xii, 323 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Leisure studies in a global era

Uniform Title

Leisure studies in a global era.

Subjects

• Popular music > Social aspects
• Popular music > Social aspects > Australia
• Music and globalization
• Heavy metal (Music) > Social aspects
• Black metal (Music) > Social aspects > Norway
• Rap (Music) > Social aspects
• Punk rock music > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Sounds and the city / Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, and Karl Spracklen -- Part I, Cities of origin? Heart of the country? : the construction of Nashville as the capital of country music / Diane Pecknold. Birmingham's post-industrial metal / Deena Weinstein. Black and brown get down : cultural politics, Chicano music, and hip-hop in racialized Los Angeles / Anthony Macías. Juidos 'n' decaf Italians : irony, blasphemy, and Jewish shtick / Steven Lee Beeber -- Part II, Consumption, hybridization, and globalization. 'Why I decided to pretend I was American, I will never know' : rock 'n roll and "The Sixties" in an English town / Stephen Wagg. Tamla Motown in the UK : Ttansatlantic reception of American rhythm and blues / Andrew Flory. "How many divisions does Ozzy Osbourne have?" : some thoughts on politics, heavy metal music and the "clash of civilizations" / Stephen Wagg. Indieglobalization and the triumph of punk in Indonesia / Jeremy Wallach. Sounds of a "rotting city" : punk in Russia's Arctic hinterland / Hilary Pilkington. True Norwegian black metal : the globalized, mythological reconstruction of the Second Wave of BM in 1990s Oslo / Karl Spracklen. Continental drift : the politics and poetics of African hip-hop / Paul Kahlil Saucier. "One day on Earth" : music, documentary filmmaking, and global soundscapes / Brett Lashua and Joseph Minadeo. Intersecting rhythms : the spatial production of local Canadian heavy Metal and urban aboriginal hip-hop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada / Karen M. Fox and Gabrielle Riches -- Part III, Music, heritage, and urban policy. Reconstruction's soundtrack / Eric Porter. We're going to Graceland : globalization and the reimagining of Memphis / Wanda Rushing. Characterising the Cold War : music and memories of Berlin, 1960-1989 / John Schofield. Outback Elvis : musical creativity in rural Australia / John Connell and Chris Gibson. In search of "independent" Brisbane : music, memory and cultural heritage / Andy Bennett and Ian Rogers -- Afterword: Reflections on popular music, place and globalization / Stephen Wagg, Karl Spracklen, and Brett Lashua.

Call Number

JMD 14-374

ISBN

• 9781137283108
• 1137283106

LCCN

2014018481

OCLC

865063360

Title

Sounds and the city : popular music, place, and globalization / edited by Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, and Stephen Wagg, Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Leisure studies in a global era

Leisure studies in a global era.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lashua, Brett, editor.

Spracklen, Karl, editor.

Wagg, Stephen, editor.

Research Call Number

JMD 14-374