Interrogating popular music and the city

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Shane Homan, Catherine Strong, Seamus O'Hanlon, John Tebbutt -- Part 1. Conceptualising the Music City. Locating the City Limits : Examining overlapping and competing policy concerns in the management and promotion of 'music cities' / Adam Behr ; The Night Mayor at Work / Shane Homan -- Part 2. Intersections of Music and Nationalism in the City. Beijing Hip Hop : From Banal Cosmopolitanism to Nationalism in the Synchronization with the West / Anthony Fung and Qian Zhang ; The Birth and 'Death' of Chinese Popular Music in Shanghai (1920s-1950s) / Mengyu Luo and Wenyu Zhong ; Other melodies in a modern city: the Thai regime of sound and literary imagination of ghostly Thai classical music in Bangkok / Wanchana Tongkhampao -- Part 3. Movements and Music in the City. The Voice of the City : Hong Kong Cantopop in the Future Continuous Tense? Yiu-Wai Chu ; Decolonial identities and DIY music as political and social resistance in the Global South / Paula Guerra ; Beyond 'pub rock' : immigration, multiculturalism and the changing face of Melbourne's live-music scene / Jen Rose and Seamus O'Hanlon -- Part 4. Heritage and Music Cities. Missing the Beat : The Role of Intangible Heritage for Western Urban Policy / Beate Peter ; "Before they come and pull the place apart" : Venue loss and heritage value in Melbourne's music scenes / Catherine Strong and Sam Whiting ; Ground-Truthing DC Punk History in Adams-Morgan / Tyler Sonnichsen ; Melbourne, music and television: the Go!! Show (1964-68) and its relevance to youthfulness / John Tebbutt."How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Music and cities have been partners in an often clumsy, sometimes accidental but always exciting dance. Heritage and immigration, noise and art, policy and politics are some of the topics that are addressed in this critical examination of relationships between cities and music. The book draws upon an international array of researchers, encompassing hip hop in Beijing; the city favelas of Brazil; from Melbourne bars to European parliaments; to heritage and tourism debates in Salzburg and Manchester. In doing so, it interrogates the different agendas of audiences, musicians and policy-makers in distinct urban settings"--