Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles
- 282 pages
- English
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Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Music and the City: Cultural Diversity in a Global Cosmopolis
- 2 Music as a City Sound: Rock Culture and the Poetics of Loss
- 3 Music as City Heritage: Decline and Renewal in the Nashville of the North
- 4 Music as a City Business: Trial, Tribulation and Place in a Labour of Love
- 5 Music as a City Industry: Haemorrhage, Debt and the Politics of Music Policy-Making
- 6 Music and City Tourism: Respect, Betrayal and the Haunting of the Beatles
- 7 Music as a City Quarter: Brands, Noises and Regeneration
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Methodology and Approach
- Bibliography
- Index