01/06/2023
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on New Book: Kultur:Wandel – Impulse für eine zukunftsweisende Kulturpraxis
Kultur:Wandel – Impulse für eine zukunftsweisende Kulturpraxis Wie sieht eine gerechte Kulturpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert aus? Wie kann die kulturelle Infrastruktur zukunftsfähig gehalten und generationen- und gendergerecht erweitert werden? Oder anders: Wie können staatliche und nicht-staatliche Akteur*innen eine Cultural Governance … Continue reading
18/04/2023
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on New Book: Popular Music Scenes – Regional and Rural Perspectives
Music Scenes are not an exclusive phenomenon of the metropolis! Popular Music Scenes – Regional and Rural Perspectives edited by Andy Bennett, David Cashman, Ben Green & Natalie Lewandowski, recently published at Palgrave McMillan, represents the first book-length study of … Continue reading
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
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
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
05/11/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on This Must Be The Place – An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues
This Must Be The Place by Robert Kronenburg is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, and its development into a distinctive genre of building design. More here
14/08/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Art and Economics in the City
Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, and the social dynamics in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a … Continue reading
31/07/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on The Great Music City – Exploring Music, Space and Identity
Based on case studies of Melbourne, Austin and Berlin Andrea Jean Baker interrogates Richard Florida’s creative cities thesis and applies a much-needed synergy of urban sociology and musicology to the concept. More here
04/06/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Musical Cities
Based on Henri Lefebvre’s philosophy of rhythmanalysis the book Musical Cities by Sara Adhitya represents an innovative approach to scholarly research and dissemination. A digital and interactive ‘book’, it explores the rhythms of our cities, and the role they play … 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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