Elements in Music and the City – serie

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Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear
AvNaomi Waltham-Smith
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
458 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
What does the urban (post)colonial condition sound like? To what extent and how is France's colonial history audible today on the streets, specifically in the Parisian quartiers populaires? Musical and sonic production has long been entangled with social movements in France and her overseas territories, and genres such as hip hop and raï have been closely associated with the urban spaces of Paris's racialized neighborhoods and with political resistance. This Element refines and extends these analyses up to contemporary antiracist and environmental struggles. Its novelty lies in telling these narratives from the perspective of the urban field recordist, reinventing the bourgeois figure of the flâneur as a feminist-decolonial activist and configuring listening as an expressly spatial practice of mapping the city. The discrete binaural microphones tucked in her ears capture everything from Franco-Maghrebi musical dissent through the sounds of police brutality and carceral capitalism to transcolonial reverberations with struggles elsewhere.
Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City
AvSarah Baker,Zelmarie Cantillonm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
248 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
The celebration of popular music can be an important mode of cultural expression and a source of pride for urban communities. This Element analyses the capacity for popular music heritage to enact cultural justice in the deindustrialising cities of Wollongong, Australia; Detroit, USA; and Birmingham, UK. The Element develops a critical approach to cultural justice for examining music and the city in a heritage context and outlines how the quest for cultural justice manifests in three key ways: collection, preservation and archiving; curation, storytelling and heritage interpretation; and mobilising communities for collective action.
Music from Aleppo during the Syrian War
Displacement and Memory in Hello Psychaleppo's Electro-Tarab
AvClara Wenz
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
248 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Aleppo is regarded as one of the historical centres of an urban Arab art music tradition known as 'tarab'. During the war that followed Syria's 2011 political uprisings, vast parts of the city were destroyed. This Element explores how 'tarab' lives on in new contexts. It does so through a focus on the work of Hello Psychaleppo, one of Aleppo's displaced musicians and the pioneer of 'electro-tarab', an eclectic style of urban electronic dance music that is conceived as a homage to Aleppo's musical legacy. Whether local religious chants, Palestinian poetry, or the image of a yellow man, electro-tarab includes an inventory of audio, visual and literary samples. These samples help conceptualise the role music has played during the Syrian war; they offer insights into Aleppo's musical and diasporic afterlife; and they illuminate some of the socio-aesthetic parameters that characterise contemporary Arab electronic music.
Opera in Warsaw
A City of the European Enlightenment
AvAnna Parkitna
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
245 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
A microcosm of busy operatic life during the reign of the enlightened King Stanisław August Poniatowski (r. 1764-95), Warsaw reveals complex processes and entanglements affecting dissemination of opera in the late eighteenth century. To the fun-loving city torn by whimsical contradictions, imported as well as domestic opera provided attractive and increasingly accessible urban entertainment, while also serving important utilitarian functions prescribed by local initiatives. Warsaw's participation in transnational circulations of works and performers encompasses both ideological and pragmatic factors that had far-reaching consequences not only for the city itself but also for Europe's shared cultural space.
Liberation on the Dance Floor
Popular Music and the Promise of Plurality
AvCraig Jennex
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
248 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Lesbian and gay liberation movements of the twentieth century were made possible through heterogeneous dance music cultures that flourished in urban spaces. In an era of profound political challenges, collective dance enabled lesbian and gay individuals to connect with their bodies and the bodies of others, experience a sense of communal belonging, explore non-normative gender and sexual desires, and perceive individual and collective power in a heteronormative reality that regularly suppressed both. For lesbians and gays, collective dance introduced them to difference as a dynamic catalyst of political change, allowing them to experience the promise of liberation. This Element combines ethnographic research, archival materials, and popular music histories to analyze the role of popular music participation in lesbian and gay liberation in US cities and demonstrate how collective dance served as a transformative site of political contestation and imagination. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life
AvHeikki Uimonen,Kaarina Kilpiöm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
248 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. Special attention is paid to listeners, spaces, and music, co- and re-produced continuously in their triangular relationship affected by social, legal, economic, and technological factors. The study of the historical development of background music industries, construction of contemporary sonic environments, and individual meaning-making is based on extensive data gathered through interviews, surveys, and fieldwork, and supported by archival research. Due to the Finnish context and the ethnomusicological approach, this study is culture-sensitive, providing a fresh 'factory-to-consumer' perspective on a phenomenon generally understood as industry-lead, behavioral, and global. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life
AvHeikki Uimonen,Kaarina Kilpiöm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
798 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. Special attention is paid to listeners, spaces, and music, co- and re-produced continuously in their triangular relationship affected by social, legal, economic, and technological factors. The study of the historical development of background music industries, construction of contemporary sonic environments, and individual meaning-making is based on extensive data gathered through interviews, surveys, and fieldwork, and supported by archival research. Due to the Finnish context and the ethnomusicological approach, this study is culture-sensitive, providing a fresh 'factory-to-consumer' perspective on a phenomenon generally understood as industry-lead, behavioral, and global. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Liberation on the Dance Floor
Popular Music and the Promise of Plurality
AvCraig Jennex
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
798 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Lesbian and gay liberation movements of the twentieth century were made possible through heterogeneous dance music cultures that flourished in urban spaces. In an era of profound political challenges, collective dance enabled lesbian and gay individuals to connect with their bodies and the bodies of others, experience a sense of communal belonging, explore non-normative gender and sexual desires, and perceive individual and collective power in a heteronormative reality that regularly suppressed both. For lesbians and gays, collective dance introduced them to difference as a dynamic catalyst of political change, allowing them to experience the promise of liberation. This Element combines ethnographic research, archival materials, and popular music histories to analyze the role of popular music participation in lesbian and gay liberation in US cities and demonstrate how collective dance served as a transformative site of political contestation and imagination. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Opera in Warsaw
A City of the European Enlightenment
AvAnna Parkitna
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
798 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
A microcosm of busy operatic life during the reign of the enlightened King Stanisław August Poniatowski (r. 1764-95), Warsaw reveals complex processes and entanglements affecting dissemination of opera in the late eighteenth century. To the fun-loving city torn by whimsical contradictions, imported as well as domestic opera provided attractive and increasingly accessible urban entertainment, while also serving important utilitarian functions prescribed by local initiatives. Warsaw's participation in transnational circulations of works and performers encompasses both ideological and pragmatic factors that had far-reaching consequences not only for the city itself but also for Europe's shared cultural space.
Discovering the Romani Sounds of Krakow
The Legend of Stefan Dymiter
AvAnna G. Piotrowska
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
263 kr
Kommande
This study explores the post-pandemic rediscovery of Romani musical heritage in Krakow, focusing on the emblematic figure of Corroro, a prominent Romani busker. It examines how the sonic legacy associated with the Roma, and with Corroro in particular, functions as a site of cultural memory and urban identity, reflecting broader processes of social transformation, negotiations of authenticity, and the rearticulation of marginalised voices within the city's evolving soundscape.
Discovering the Romani Sounds of Krakow
The Legend of Stefan Dymiter
AvAnna G. Piotrowska
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
787 kr
Kommande
This study explores the post-pandemic rediscovery of Romani musical heritage in Krakow, focusing on the emblematic figure of Corroro, a prominent Romani busker. It examines how the sonic legacy associated with the Roma, and with Corroro in particular, functions as a site of cultural memory and urban identity, reflecting broader processes of social transformation, negotiations of authenticity, and the rearticulation of marginalised voices within the city's evolving soundscape.
The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War
Jane Bathori's Concerts in War and Peace
AvBarbara L. Kelly
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
789 kr
Kommande
The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War brings music in the city to life during and immediately after the conflict. It tells the extraordinary story of singer, Jane Bathori, who became temporary director of an avant-garde theatre in Paris, the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. Drawing on a wide inter-artistic network, Bathori collaborated with writers, set designers, choreographers, performers and composers to create highly original programmes by commissioning new works, reviving early music, staging chamber opera, mixing high art music with folk, popular and patriotic songs, and incorporating literary events. Bathori is remembered for her advocacy of composers such as Ravel, Satie, Poulenc and Milhaud, but was systematically written out of theatre history. Drawing on a rich range of archival materials, I show that her war-time artistic action sparked inter-artistic collaborations and shaped interwar musical taste, alongside figures such as Serge Diaghilev and Jean Cocteau.
The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War
Jane Bathori's Concerts in War and Peace
AvBarbara L. Kelly
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
248 kr
Kommande
The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War brings music in the city to life during and immediately after the conflict. It tells the extraordinary story of singer, Jane Bathori, who became temporary director of an avant-garde theatre in Paris, the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. Drawing on a wide inter-artistic network, Bathori collaborated with writers, set designers, choreographers, performers and composers to create highly original programmes by commissioning new works, reviving early music, staging chamber opera, mixing high art music with folk, popular and patriotic songs, and incorporating literary events. Bathori is remembered for her advocacy of composers such as Ravel, Satie, Poulenc and Milhaud, but was systematically written out of theatre history. Drawing on a rich range of archival materials, I show that her war-time artistic action sparked inter-artistic collaborations and shaped interwar musical taste, alongside figures such as Serge Diaghilev and Jean Cocteau.
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Memorialising the 'Reconquista' of Spain
Sonic Politics and Cultural Memory in Granada
AvMatthew Machin-Autenrieth
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
910 kr
Skickas
The Día de la toma [Conquest Day], held every 2nd January, celebrates the Catholic 'reconquest' of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1492), which resulted in the collapse of Muslim Spain. The festival has become politicised by ultra-nationalist, anti-immigration groups, as well as Andalusian regionalist movements that want the event to become a 'festival of tolerance'. I examine the 'soundtrack' of the festival in dialogue with work on music and politics, sound studies, cultural memory and affect. From fascist anthems, to chants and flamenco fusions, music and sound serve conflicting readings of Granada's cultural memory. I argue that musical and sonic protest delineates conflicting political and territorial positions in a city that is polarised along regionalist vs nationalist and multiculturalist vs nativist lines. Moreover, I contend that the festival highlights an ambivalence towards the city's Muslim community, and so I consider how this community is sounded and silenced at the event.
Memorialising the 'Reconquista' of Spain
Sonic Politics and Cultural Memory in Granada
AvMatthew Machin-Autenrieth
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
248 kr
Kommande
The Día de la toma [Conquest Day], held every 2nd January, celebrates the Catholic 'reconquest' of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1492), which resulted in the collapse of Muslim Spain. The festival has become politicised by ultra-nationalist, anti-immigration groups, as well as Andalusian regionalist movements that want the event to become a 'festival of tolerance'. I examine the 'soundtrack' of the festival in dialogue with work on music and politics, sound studies, cultural memory and affect. From fascist anthems, to chants and flamenco fusions, music and sound serve conflicting readings of Granada's cultural memory. I argue that musical and sonic protest delineates conflicting political and territorial positions in a city that is polarised along regionalist vs nationalist and multiculturalist vs nativist lines. Moreover, I contend that the festival highlights an ambivalence towards the city's Muslim community, and so I consider how this community is sounded and silenced at the event.
Urban Spectacle in Republican Milan
Pubbliche feste at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
AvAlessandra Palidda
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
248 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Lombardy and its capital Milan lived through a season of intense social and political change, especially in the passage between Austrian Monarchy and Napoleonic republics (1796-1799, and 1800-1802). While affecting cultural production on all levels, this passage occasioned a significant change in terms of public celebration, with republican festivals and other celebratory occasions coming from revolutionary France being reframed amongst Milanese specificities. After establishing a solid historical and aesthetic background to Lombardy in this delicate period, to the revolutionary models and to the Milanese substrate, this Element aims at reconstructing and describing the main features of the French republican festivals in Milan, and their impact on the city's landscape, soundscape and self-representation. It will also conclude by offering some reflections on these events' consequences on the following century's patriotism/nationalism and cultural production, reinstating them as an interesting, albeit forgotten case study.

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Elements in Music and the City – serie

Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear

Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City

Music from Aleppo during the Syrian War

Opera in Warsaw

Liberation on the Dance Floor

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Liberation on the Dance Floor

Opera in Warsaw

Discovering the Romani Sounds of Krakow

Discovering the Romani Sounds of Krakow

The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War

The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War

Memorialising the 'Reconquista' of Spain

Memorialising the 'Reconquista' of Spain

Urban Spectacle in Republican Milan

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