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.
19/12/2016
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Documentary: Made in Birmingham: Reggae Punk Bhangra
‘Made in Birmingham: Reggae Punk Bhangra’ tells the story and development of these three genres in Birmingham from the mid 70s to the mid 90s through rare and uncovered archive footage and interviews from those who were actually there. Directed … Continue reading
15/12/2016
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Open until Dec. 16th: The Place of Music, 28-29 June 2017, Loughborough University
Call for papers It is almost twenty years since the publication of the landmark text ‘The Place of Music’ (Leyshon et al. 1998) put the complex relationships between music and place firmly on the research agenda. In those twenty years, … Continue reading
15/12/2016
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Sites of Interest: Exploring the Urban in Art Worlds, May 11th-13th, 2017 – Berlin
For the 2017 DGS Sociology of Arts meeting in Berlin, we invite papers researching the ways that cities shape art at different levels. The goal of this event is to share research and invoke dialogues about the ways that the … Continue reading
15/12/2016
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Welcome
Hi, in the end, we are online! With this Blog, we´d like to connect scholars of different disciplines and all interested actors working on the varying relationships between music and the city. Therefore, we collect and share information about available … Continue reading