Titlebook: Sounds and the City; Popular Music, Place Brett Lashua (Carnegie Faculty, Senior Lecturer),K Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Ma

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Heart of the Country? The Construction of Nashville as the Capital of Country Musicville. But the reverse is said to be equally true. Although country music emerged as a set of vernacular styles and then a commercial genre well before Nashville dominated its production, the city is understood to have played an indispensable role in the development of country music.

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Birmingham’s Postindustrial Metal named ‘Untitled’ by sculptor Antony Gormley. With its oxidized rust-coloured exterior and Tower-of-Pisa tilt, ‘Iron: Man’ is a homage to the devastation of Birmingham’s once thriving heavy metal industry.

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‘How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?’ Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music, and the a ‘metalhead’ and have neither experienced much metal music nor travelled in the social world of metal — but it is written, a measure of scepticism notwithstanding, out of intellectual and political sympathy with those who see metal as a means to progressive social change in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Indieglobalization and the Triumph of Punk in Indonesiahough not exotic’ as they apply the lessons of punk music and culture to their everyday lives in the often-harsh environs of a developing nation. Their dress signals allegiance to a scenic community composed of friends and comrades that in turn connects them to a flourishing planet-wide network of l

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Sounds of a ‘Rotting City’: Punk in Russia’s Arctic Hinterlandoundtrack (Moore, 2010, pp. 5–8) also fall short of the mark. Punk in late Soviet Russia shared the underground with other forms of rock music rather than being pitted against the popular music industry (Pilkington, 1994, p. 229). Indeed, given that in 1976–1977 rock music was still struggling to es

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True Norwegian Black Metal — The Globalized, Mythological Reconstruction of the Second Wave of Blackthat teachers, parents, priests, and politicians complained about heavy metal: not only was it music for idiots, it was dangerously Satanic. Iron Maiden wrote songs with titles like ‘Number of the Beast’, Venom posed with skulls and spoke about worshipping the Devil, and we all knew about the spooky

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: Music, Documentary Film-Making, and Global Soundscapestropolis continues to be the foremost space in which to (try to) sound out the human condition (Augé, 1999). The more people live in them, the more we are fascinated, puzzled, and frustrated by cities. In an increasingly globalized world, perhaps above all else, contemporary cities have become place