Interrogating Popular Music and the City

Shane Homan is Head of the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Melbourne. He has published five books and many book chapters and journal articles on cultural policy, particularly intersections between the music industries and national cultural policy.Catherine Strong is an Associate Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include cultural heritage and history, and gender issues in popular music. She is the co-editor of the journal Popular Music History.Seamus O’Hanlon teaches contemporary urban, social and cultural history at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His most recent publications include City Life: the New Urban Australia and Music City Melbourne: Urban Culture, History and Policy co-authored with Shane Homan, Catherine Strong and John Tebbutt.John Tebbutt has a PhD in History (University of Sydney). John is Associate Professor (Honorary), School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, and at the Faculty of Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. He is managing editor with Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.

• 1. Introduction: Interrogating the Music CityShane Homan, Catherine Strong, Seamus O’Hanlon and John TebbuttPart I Conceptualising the Music City2. Locating the City Limits: Examining Overlapping and Competing Policy Concerns in the Management and Promotion of ‘Music Cities’Adam Behr3. The Night Mayor at WorkShane HomanPart II Intersections of Music and Nationalism in the City4. Beijing Hip Hop: From Banal Cosmopolitanism to Nationalism in the Synchronisation with the WestAnthony Fung and Qian Zhang5. The Birth, Death, and Revitalisation of Chinese Popular Music in ShanghaiMengyu Luo and Wenyu Zhong6. Other Melodies in a Modern City: The Thai Regime of Sound and Literary Imagination of Ghostly Thai Classical Music in Bangkok Wanchana Tongkhampao Part III Movements and Music in the City7. The Voice of the City: Hong Kong Cantopop in the Future Continuous Tense?Yiu-Wai Chu8. Decolonial identities and DIY Music as Political and Social Resistance in the Global SouthPaula Guerra9. Beyond ‘Pub Rock’: Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Changing Face of Melbourne’s Live Music SceneJennifer Rose and Seamus O’HanlonPart IV Heritage and Music Cities10. Missing the Beat: The Role of Intangible Heritage for Western Urban PolicyBeate Peter11. “Before They Come and Pull the Place Apart”: Venue Loss and Heritage Value in Melbourne’s Music ScenesCatherine Strong and Sam Whiting12. Ground-Truthing DC Punk History in Adams–MorganTyler Sonnichsen13. Screening Teenagers: Modernity and Music Television in 1960s MelbourneJohn Tebbutt