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18/02/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music

Music4Change invites papers, panels and workshops for the 2024 International Research School on the theme of Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music to be held on 6th-8th November at the University of Groningen. During these three days we will explore … Continue reading

15/02/2024
by Conference Documentation
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Conference “Home, Work and Music: Musical Practices in Domestic Spaces” ++ Vienna, Febr. 23rd/24th, 2024

                                                                                                                                                                                                   This conference – Home, Work and Music – explores issues and debates centred around music in domestic spaces. It will showcase current research on the empirical, methodological and theoretical implications of centring the domestic in music research. Domestic spaces … Continue reading

12/02/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Resonant Fabrics – Listening to Urban Worlds

Soundscapes profoundly connect listeners to the places they inhabit and thereby reveal the vibrant and resonant fabrics that lie beneath the delineated spaces of visual representation. In Resonant Fabrics, Marvin Heine explores and celebrates the many-layered and ambiguously undulating sense- … Continue reading

18/01/2024
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better

This Must Be the Place by Shain Shapiro introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed. Told in … Continue reading

24/11/2023
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Singing in China, theory and fieldwork in music geography – A Shanghai case study and singing during the covid-19 pandemic

Dear colleagues, Dear friends, I am pleased to announce you my PhD viva voce examination in geography, entitled: “Singing in China, theory and fieldwork in music geography – A Shanghai case study and singing during the covid-19 pandemic”.It will be … Continue reading

17/11/2023
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Singing in China, theory and fieldwork in music geography

Dear colleagues, Dear friends, I am pleased to announce you my PhD viva voce examination in geography, entitled: “Singing in China, theory and fieldwork in music geography – A Shanghai case study and singing during the covid-19 pandemic”. It will … Continue reading

04/10/2023
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Reimagining Music Venues: Toward New Models of Conservation and Innovation for Ontario’s Live Music Spaces

Co-authored by Daniel Silver and Jonathan Bunce this project has been carried out as a collaboration between the University of Toronto – School of Cities and Wavelength music. The research findings underscore the importance of fostering an adaptable and resilient … Continue reading

22/09/2023
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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New Geographies of Music Urban Policies, Live Music, and Careers in a Changing Industry

Edited by Ola Johansson,  Séverin Guillard and Joseph Palis this book provides an accessible and succinct overview of current discussions on cities and contemporary music policies offers novel insights spanning the fields of urban and cultural geography, urban policy, music … Continue reading

17/07/2023
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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The Sound of a City: A Study of the Phenomenon

 Maciej Smółka examines in his new publication the sound of a city in terms of the relationship between music and the cultural specificity of a given urban area. This cultural phenomenon becomes apparent when artists from a region create music, … Continue reading