03/11/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Book: Socio-Spatial Developments of Underground Music Venues
Taking into account broader processes of urban regeneration, the new book by Robin Kuchar combines the appearance of a more and more commercialized live music culture and changing spatial strategies of DIY scenes to examine how originally DIY and Underground based … Continue reading
23/10/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Seoul – The Ninth Music Cities Convention
The Ninth Music Cities Convention will be held from 11th till 12th of November 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. One session of this virtual convention will be devoted to the topic Covid-19: The response of the Global Music City as … Continue reading
03/10/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Deindustrialisation and Popular Music
Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere by Giacomo Bottà The book is a comparative study of deindustrialisation and popular music in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino, and Manchester. In these cities, during the late 1970s and early 1980s,punk and … Continue reading
17/09/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Sounds of the Pandemic International online conference, December 16th, 2020
Call for papers The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has had a strong impact on the sound of the places we live in, particularly as a consequence of the measures taken to stem the contagion. First of all, the lockdown … Continue reading
23/06/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Urban Nostalgia: The Musical City in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The aim of this international conference, which will take place between the 5-7 July 2020, is to explore space through music, approaching the history of the city via the notion of nostalgia. Full programme and details: https://www.ehess.fr/sites/default/files/appels/fichiers/urban_nostalgia5_6_2020.pdf Register via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tRo1a9djSh2EIaPN7NWs0Q … Continue reading
18/05/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Better Music Cities
Sound Diplomacy presents in the Music Cities Resilience Handbook its visions about the recovery of the music scene after the COVID-19 global pandemic. More you can find here
02/05/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Sounding Out the Tourist City
Sounding Out the Tourist City is a three-year research project that seeks to explore the impact of tourism on everyday urban public ambiances, with a particular focus on the sonic ambiance. The meteoric rise of Lisbon as a major tourist … Continue reading
14/04/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on #StayHomeSounds by Cities and Memory
Cities and Memory is a global, collaborative sound art and mapping project that remixes the world, one sound at a time. The project covers more than 95 countries and territories with more than 3,500 sounds, and more than 650 contributing … Continue reading
28/03/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on MUSIC CITIES CONVERSATIONS by Sound Diplomacy
A new series of discussions with music cities professionals from around the globe, Music Cities Conversations will analyse the role of music in our lives and society, as well ways explore topics such as resilience, cultural governance, policy-making and creativity … Continue reading
12/03/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Urban Nostalgia: The Musical City in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The aim of this workshop, which will take place on the 3 July 2020 in Paris, is to explore space through music, approaching the history of the city via the notion of nostalgia. Call for Papers can be found here
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