30/01/2017
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Update Resources Section: Bibliography of Articles related to Urban Music Studies
Bibliography completed! Have a look on the site ‘Articles’ in the Resources section. We just added a quite long list of international contributions dealing with Music and the City. In connection with books and expertises, we now have completed a … Continue reading
In the resources sections, we just added some sources of expertises and other related work referring to Urban Music Studies. Have a look at some international as well as German publications:
17/01/2017
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on New Book by Giacomo Bottà: Invisible Landscapes. Popular Music and Spatiality
The multilingual volume “Invisible Landscapes” comprises chapters about heterogeneous popular music practices, largely, but not exclusively, from Europe. Addressing the relation between popular music practices and political struggles, postcolonialities, dense and layered urban settings and a certain understanding of cultural … Continue reading
11/01/2017
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on No Fun City! Documentary of Vancouver´s Underground Music Scenes
A FILM ABOUT DIY CULTURE, LOUD MUSIC, ILLEGAL VENUES AND THE WAR ON FUN. Is live music being silenced? Cities around the world are experiencing the death of the independent live music venues. With the proliferation of condo developments in … Continue reading
06/01/2017
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Mapping the Sound of Cities
Soundcities An online open source database of city sounds and soundmaps from around the world using online found sounds and field recording.
04/01/2017
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Report: London´s Grassroot Venues Rescue Plan
The conditions of grassroot music venues in cities are rather decreasing. A note of London: London’s Music Venues Taskforce report about the situation of grassroot music venues in the British capital.