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
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
04/06/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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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
24/05/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Places, like people, have pulses – if only you know how to measure them More here
02/05/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
Comments Off on Music City Manual
Sound Diplomacy are proud to present the Music Cities Manual, a set of tools, case studies and lessons to increase the value of music in your city, town or place. The Music Cities Manual provides 13 comprehensive, common-sense steps for … Continue reading
01/03/2019
by Timon Scheuer
Comments Off on !Save the date: Feb 13th-15th, 2020 // Groove the City II conference!
We are very happy to announce the next edition of our Groove the City conference: From Feb13th-15th, 2020 the international community of urban music studies will again meet in the North of Germany close to Hamburg in Lueneburg, this time … Continue reading
28/11/2018
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Thanks & Radio Feature ‘Groove the City’ – Conference
Dear all, last weekend, we had a quite productive conference at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Thanks very much to everyone who was part of it making the conference to the successful event it was! We´d also like to thank Alexander … Continue reading
07/11/2018
by R. Kuchar
Comments Off on Book of Abstracts ‘Groove the City – Urban Music Policies between Informal Networks and Institutional Governance’
The Book of Abstract of our conference is completed! We are looking forward to “Groove the City” and invite you to have a look inside:
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.
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