Sounds and the City

This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.

"Through research on Berlin, New York, Nashville, New Orleans, Los Angeles and beyond, this book shows how much there is to learn about the relationship between popular music and cities. It also includes fascinating discussion on places that have not been so commonly associated with popular music, including rural Australia and the Russian arctic, middle England and the Middle East. Sounds and the City will be an important addition to reading lists for those interested not only in music and cities but also in the geographical and global circulations of popular music and in cultural heritage and cultural memory, local identity and social change." - Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK

Steven Lee Beeber, Lesley University, USAAndy Bennett, Griffith University, AustraliaJohn Connell, University of Sydney, AustraliaAndrew Flory, Carleton College, USAKaren Fox, University of Alberta, CanadaChris Gibson, University of Wollongong, AustraliaAnthony Macías, University of California, USAJoseph Minadeo, PatternBased Music, USADiane Pecknold, University of Louisville, USAHilary Pilkington, University of Manchester, UKEric Porter, University of California, USAGabrielle Riches, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKIan Rogers, Griffith University, AustraliaWanda Rushing, University of Memphis, USAP. Kahlil Saucier, Rhode Island College, USAJohn Schofield, University of Turku, FinlandJeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USADeena Weinstein, DePaul University, USA