25/02/2018
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Making Cities, Cities in the Making: Moments of Arrival, Appropriation and Resistance
Open Penal at the 18th IUAES World Congress “World (of) Encounters: The past, present and future of anthropological knowledge” Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 16-20 July 2018. Cities are not neutral sites in which people enter. They are … Continue reading
23/02/2018 by Alenka Barber-Kersovan | Comments Off on The Battle for the High Street – Book by Phil Hubbard
Hight streets in British cities often carry strong
meanings in terms of social an cultural status. In this
book, Phil Hubbard analyses their development in times of
recession and austerity and points out how high streets
are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight.
The book provides a powerful argument against retail
gentrification, and a timely analysis of class conflict in
austerity Britain. It will be of great interest to
scholars of geography, social policy and cultural studies.
Phil Hubbard – The Battle for High Street, Retail
Gentrification, Class and Disgust
Palgrave Macmillan, London – February 2017
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06/09/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Urban musics and musical practices in sixteenth-century Europe
In their interdisciplinary research project, carried out between 2012 and 2016 at CSIC, Institución y Mila Fontanals, the principal investigator Dr. Tess Knighton and her team explored the 16th century urban music culture in Barcelona. They analysed the comopolitan social … Continue reading
21/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Global Trends in the Popular Culture and Nighttime Entertainment of European Cities, 1880s–1930s
The role that dance halls, cabarets and variety theatres, and cultural imports like the cakewalk, tango and jazz played in the rise of a pan-European and global commercial popular culture, has been addressed either from the perspective of a single … Continue reading
15/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Symphony of a Metropolis II: ‘We Stood Like Kings’
The original music for Ruttmanns ‘Symphony of a metropolis’ was composed by Edmund Meisel and played live with a symphony orchestra. However, Ruttmanns semi-documentary portrait of Berlin remains as a strong inspiration for creating new soundtracks up until now. The … Continue reading
14/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Music Tourism Convention By Sound Diplomacy
Music Cities Events is proud to present Music Tourism Convention. The world’s most extensive conference bringing together the music and tourism sectors to explore how music impacts, benefits and improves tourism offers, from festivals to heritage, music trails to food and … Continue reading
03/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Marseille ? Naples : deux métropoles musicales transculturelles de Méditerranée
In addition to numerous other similarities, the Mediterranean cities Marseille and Naples offer very lively music scenes with significant parallels (and, of course, differences). Examples of comparable phenomena point to typical forms of popular song (“canzone napoletana”/”chansons deMarseille”), the close … Continue reading
31/07/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Berlin – Symphony of a Metropolis
In his documentary film ‘Berlin – Symphony of a Metropolis’ Walther Ruttmann (1887-1944) experiments with the perception of the city in motion in terms of a musical form: The symphony. With its montage technique and the dramaturgical structure this 60 … Continue reading
12/07/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on CfP: Imagine Kingston as a Regenerative City
There are, in Kingston old quarters, a geography of dereliction, social discomfort and crime that rank this city in the top thirty in the world with respect to murder. However, this city is also a global cultural icon, the birthplace … Continue reading
03/07/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Busking in Berlin: Between an art of living and the art of surviving
Who is busking in Berlin and why? Mark Nowakowski provides a detailed portrait of the street music scene in Berlin and their actors. Besides the role of the artists and the matrix between them, their audience and the city, Mark … Continue reading