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Urban Music Studies
Urban Music Studies aims at an inter- and trans-disciplinary exchange between researchers working on the relationship between the music and the city. The series covers a broad range of topics and musical practices, current as well as historical. With its cross cultural point of departure and the focus on countries and geographical regions which are normally excluded from the scientific discourse (such as Global South), this series will bring fresh perspectives on the role of music in the accelerated urbanisation processes.
We welcome proposals for monographs, readers and edited collections.
The theoretical model of Urban Music Studies is based on the assumptions that
- there is a vital exchange between the music and the city
- music is a part of the intrinsic logic of cities
- music contributes to the image design of a city
- music is an important part of the economy of cities and urban regeneration
- music can become an issue of urban politics and policies
- music is an essential component of the cultural heritage of cities
- music is a pivotal part of urban culture and the Creative Industries
Editorial board
Andy Bennett, Griffith University Brisbane
Giacomo Bottá, University of Helsinki
Martin Cloonan, University of Glasgow
Pranoo Deshraju, University of Hyderabad
Murray Forman, Northeastern University Boston
Paula Guerra, Universidade do Porto
Fabian Holt, Roskilde University
Luciana Mendonça, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Rosa Reitsamer, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Daniel Silver, University of Toronto
Will Straw, McGill University Montreal
Susana Zapke, Musik und Kunst, Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien
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Urban Music Governance
What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities
What happens when precarious urban cultural labourers take data collection, laws and policymaking into their own hands? Buskers have been part of our cities for hundreds of years, but they remain invisible to governments and in datasets. From nuisance to public art, this cultural practice can help us understand the politics of data collection, archives, regulatory frameworks and urban planning. Busking also responds to underlying questions on the boundaries of the right to the city – and who has a voice in shaping how our cities are planned and governed.
A transnational exploration of street performance, Urban Music Governance examines the intricate limits of legality, data visibility and resistance from the perspective of those working at the social and regulatory margins of society. Based on a decade of fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal, this book puts forward a lively account on why such an often-overlooked practice mattes today.
By investigating the role of busking in contemporary society, Urban Music Governance presents an original interdisciplinary study that exposes how power dynamics in policymaking decide issues of access – and exclusion – around us, above and below ground.
Popular Music in Leeds
Histories, Heritage, People and Places
This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition “Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment.
The city has spawned crooners, folk singers, punks, post- punks, Goths, DJs, popstars, rappers and indie rockers, yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK cities have. In ways that the chapters explore, Leeds’ popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and across wider global contexts – of the social and historical significance of music as mass media; music and migration; music, racialisation and social equity; industrial decline, de-industrialisation, neoliberalism and the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation, while concomitantly tracing arguments about “heritagising” popular music within discussions about music’s “place” in museums and in the urban economy, this book contributes to debates about why music matters, has mattered, and continues to matter in Leeds, and beyond.
Sonic Signatures
Music, Migration and the City at Night
Sonic Signatures is an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars and music-makers who come together to explore how music makes cities. More specifically, they argue that the musical encounter, composed of an array of production and consumption practices, takes on particular and essential meaning at night. Thinking about music as an encounter allows one to appreciate the value and power of migration within the act of music-making.
The majority of voices amplified in the book come from so-called “migrants,” understood as someone who was born in one country and currently lives and works in another. Yet, these words, migration, migrant and migrancy, are more expansive than that as they indicate a range of movement, politics and place-making.
Contributions from Emilie Amrein, André de Quadros, Nick Dunn, Pol Esteve, Jillian Fulton-Melanson, Jacqueline Georgis, Masimba Hwati, Ailbhe Kenny, Seger Kersbergen, Brendan Kibbee, Áine Mangaoang, Derek Pardue, Nick Prior, Austin T. Richie, Willians Santos, Sipho Sithole, Gibran Teixeira Braga, Katie Young.
A great, engaging transdisciplinary contribution to nightlife studies, music and the city.