Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music

Introduction, Ola Johansson and Thomas L. Bell; Part I Music, Space, and Political Activism: Geographies of John and Yoko's 1969 Campaign for Peace: an intersection of celebrity, space, art and activism, Robert J. Kruse II; Scales of resistance: Billy Bragg and the creation of activist spaces, Edward Jackiewicz and James Craine. Part II Tourism and Landscapes of Music: Writing on the Graceland wall: on the importance of authorship in pilgrimage landscapes, Derek H. Alderman; Ambient Australia: music, meditation, and tourist places, John Connell and Chris Gibson. Part III Mapping Musical Texts: A lesson of geography, on the riddim: the symbolic topography of reggae music, Sarah Daynes; A listener's mental map of California, Kevin Romig. Part IV Place in Music/Music in Place: Musical cartographies: los ritmos de los barrios de la habana, John Finn and Chris Lukinbeal; The city she loves me: the Los Angeles of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michael W. Pesses; The geography of 'Canadian Shield rock': locality, nationality, and place imagery in the music of the Rheostatics, Olaf Kuhlke. Part V Local Music in a Connected World: Internet radio and cultural connections: a case study of the St John's, Newfoundland radio market, Sara Beth Keough; Local independent music scenes and the implications of the internet, Holly C. Kruse; Where are the new US music scenes?, Ola Johansson and Thomas L. Bell. Part VI The Geography of Genres: Hip hop: a oostmodern folk music, Steven Graves; Techno: music and entrepreneurship in post-Fordist Detroit, Deborah Che; The production of contemporary Christian music: a geographical perspective, John Lindenbaum; Index.