ABSTRACT
Music and Heritage provides new thinking about the diverse ways people engage with heritage. By exploring the relationships that exist between music, place and identity, the book illustrates how people form attachments to place and how such attachments are represented by sound and music-making.
Presenting case studies and perspectives from across a range of genres, the volume argues that combining music with heritage provides an alternative and productive opportunity to think about heritage values and place attachment. Contributions to this edited collection use a diversity of methods, perspectives, cues and genres to reflect critically on issues related to these and other interconnections in ways that encourage new thinking about the character, meaning and purpose of cultural heritage, and the various ways in which people can interact with it through sound – thus re-encountering the supposedly familiar world around them.
Taking heritage studies, musicology and place-making research in new directions, Music and Heritage will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, history, music, geography and anthropology. It will also be relevant to those with an interest in how music relates to place-making and place attachment, as well as to practitioners and policymakers working in the planning, design and creative sectors.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
Parklife: (New) town and (old) country
chapter 2|11 pages
The soundscape and cosmology of the Norwegian band Wardruna
part II|71 pages
On and on: Cities/industry/infrastructure
chapter 9|12 pages
The city as archive
chapter 10|11 pages
Music heritage, cultural justice and the Steel City
part III|34 pages
Interzone: Comparative notes on a northern town
chapter 13|11 pages
How a Northern Quarter music venue was crucial in the reinterpretation of 19th-century Broadside Ballads
chapter 15|11 pages
Morrissey, memory and traces of lost time in Manchester
part IV|62 pages
No future: Remembrance