28/08/2018
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Preliminary Programme Online – ‘Groove the City’ – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance
Hi there again, after having opened registration for our conference yesterday, we are proud to announce that the preliminary programme of ‘Groove the City – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance’ now is completed. Have a look at … Continue reading
27/08/2018
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Registration Open! ‘Groove the City’ – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance
We are very happy to announce that registration for the 1st international conference of Urban Music Studies Network held from Nov. 23rd-25th, 2018 at Leuphana University of Lueneburg is open now. Until Oct. 15th you can register for conference participation … Continue reading
08/08/2018
by Leonard Sprueth
Comments Off on XIV. Symposium zur Filmmusikforschung – Mapping Spaces, Sounding Places: Geographies of Sound in audiovisual Media
In collaboration with the Università di Pavia – Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni Culturali, the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung invites for a symposium of how sound design, film music and music editing in general exert a primary function in conveying … Continue reading
06/06/2018 by Leonard Sprueth | Comments Off on Interactive Music Mapping Vienna – Research Project
Exploring a City. 1945 up to the Present Day
Lead by Susana Zapke, keynote-speaker at our conference in November, this research project tackles the role of music in urban context as an instrument of social identification and the question of how music is symbolically used in municipal politics. The city of Vienna hereby functions as an example to point out the ways music can be responsible for creating specific city spheres and ideological subjects.
In this manner, cultural and social practices are looked upon to identify the modus operandi of the city as well as its social dispositions. Vienna’s site-specificity will thereby be attributed to the acoustic-tonal construct inherited.
This particular research-emphasis was developed through the entanglement of scientific and artistic approaches and practices of diverse projects at the MUK Vienna since 2012.
02/05/2018
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Reminder: Conference Call ‘Groove the City’ – Deadline on May 10th
‘Groove the City’ – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance is the 1st international conference of the Urban Music Studies Network that will be held from Nov. 23rd to 25th, 2018 at Leuphana University of Lueneburg. We … Continue reading
09/04/2018
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Reminder & Update: Groove the City – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance
We would like to remind you of the open call for our conference in November and are very happy to announce that we have been able to complete Keynote Speaker appearances for this first major event related to Urban Music … Continue reading
23/03/2018
by Leonard Sprueth
Comments Off on Music Cities Convention, Melbourne, 19 – 20 April 2018
The programm of the 2018 edition of the Music Cities Convention by Sound Diplomacy, which will take place from 19 – 20 April 2018 in Melbourne, Australia, is now online. More:
09/03/2018
by Sebastian Maier
Comments Off on CfP: “Groove the City”
Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance International symposium of the Urban Music Studies Scholars Network in collaboration with the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Since Urban Music Studies are a lively field … Continue reading
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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