18/05/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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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
29/09/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue on The Arts and the City
This special issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs aims is calling for original papers that will empirically examine or conceptually extend the understanding of the connections between the arts and the city. The special issue will bring together scholars … Continue reading
27/06/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Manchester’s Post-punk Heritage: Mobilising and Contesting Transcultural Memory in the Context of Urban Regeneration
Urban memories are remediated and mobilised by different – and often conflicting – stakeholders, representing the heritage industry, municipal city branding campaigns or anti-gentrification struggles. As Dagmar Brunow states in her article, the Post-punk ‘retromania’ coincided with the culture-led regeneration … Continue reading
23/05/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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The UK’s first ever live music census – a ‘Springwatch’ for live music. The Census covers all genres and takes a broad definition of live music to include events featuring DJs. A nationwide online survey for musicians, venues, promoters and audiences is open and collecting data until 31 … Continue reading
05/05/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Music Cities Network is a new public/private network dedicated to improving communication and cooperation, sharing research and knowledge, exploring policy and advocacy, and networking for policy makers, city leaders and all other music city stakeholders. The network is aimed at making … Continue reading
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.
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