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The Minneapolis Sound: The City, Music and Identity explores how a distinctive musical phenomenon shaped—and was shaped by—the urban, social, and cultural fabric of Minneapolis. Rather than focusing solely on Prince or his protégés, the book treats the Minneapolis Sound as a cultural phenomenon where geography, race, memory, and community intersect. Drawing from cultural geography, American studies, and popular music studies, The author analyzes how this locally rooted yet globally recognized sound became a symbol of place, pride, and identity.Combining critical discourse analysis with five in-depth interviews with key local voices—including artists, scholars, and historians—the study situates the Minneapolis Sound within broader debates on music and place. Divided into three interconnected parts (The City, Music, and Identity) it traces the city’s history and communities, the evolution of the Sound from its pre-Prince origins to the post-Prince era, and its ongoing cultural resonance in the wake of collective remembrance.By rethinking what it means for a city to have a ""sound,"" the book proposes a new framework for understanding how music functions as a cultural phenomenon: a dynamic web of artistic, social, and spatial practices that continue to define both Minneapolis and its people."
Del 16 - New Americanists in Poland
Sound of a City: A Study of the Phenomenon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
546 kr
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The sound of a city is a cultural phenomenon based on the characteristic relationship between music and the cultural specificity of a given urban area. It occurs when artists from a region create music, which is so unique, it becomes indisputably linked with its place of origin in the public discourse. The link becomes so strong, the phenomenon’s name derives from the name of the city. There were numerous examples of such sounds in popular music history, including the Nashville Sound with its specific country music, the psychedelic rock of the San Francisco Sound, Prince’s the Minneapolis Sound, or the Seattle Sound is also known as grunge. This publication explains the terms in which we should research, analyze, interpret, and define the sound of a city.