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

"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

• Introduction: Sounds and the City; Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, and Karl Spracklen 1. Heart of the Country? The Construction of Nashville as the Capital of Country Music; Diane Pecknold 2. Birmingham's Post-Industrial Metal; Deena Weinstein 3. Black and Brown Get Down: Cultural Politics, Chicano Music, and Hip-Hop in Racialized Los Angeles; Anthony Macías 4. Juidos 'n' Decaf Italians: Irony, Blasphemy, and Jewish Shtick; Steven Lee Beeber 5. 'Why I Decided to Pretend I was American, I Will Never Know': Rock 'n Roll and 'The Sixties' in an English Town; Stephen Wagg 6. Tamla-Motown in the UK: Transatlantic Reception of American Rhythm and Blues; Andrew Flory 7. 'How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?' Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music and the 'Clash of Civilisations'; Stephen Wagg 8. Indieglobalization and the Triumph of Punk in Indonesia; Jeremy Wallach 9. Sounds of a 'Rotting City': Punk in Russia's Arctic Hinterland;Hilary Pilkington 10. True Norwegian Black Metal: TheGlobalized, Mythological Reconstruction of the Second Wave of BM in 1990s Oslo; Karl Spracklen 11. Continental Drift: The Politics and Poetics of African Hip-Hop; Paul Kahlil Saucier 12. 'One Day On Earth': Music, Documentary Filmmaking, and Global Soundscapes; Brett Lashua and Joseph Minadeo 13. 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 14. Reconstruction's Soundtrack; Eric Porter 15. We're Going to Graceland: Globalisation and the Reimagining of Memphis; Wanda Rushing 16. Characterising the Cold War: Music and Memories of Berlin, 1960-1989; John Schofield 17. Outback Elvis: Musical Creativity in Rural Australia; John Connell and Chris Gibson 18. 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