ABSTRACT
There is growing recognition and understanding of music’s fundamentally spatial natures, with significances of space found both in the immediacy of musical practices and in connection to broader identities and ideas around music. Whereas previous publications have looked at connections between music and space through singular lenses (such as how they are linked to ethnic identities or how musical images of a city are constructed), this book sets out to explore intersections between multiple scales and kinds of musical spaces. It complements the investigation of broader power structures and place-based identities by a detailed focus on the moments of music-making and musical environments, revealing the mutual shaping of these levels. The book overcomes a Eurocentric focus on a typically narrow range of musics (especially European and North American classical and popular forms) with case studies on a diverse set of genres and global contexts, inspiring a range of ethnographic, text-based, historical, and practice-based approaches.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |240 pages
Part I
part |79 pages
(Trans)local Musical Spaces
part |72 pages
Regionality in Learning and Heritage
chapter Chapter 5|29 pages
Performing Local Music: Engaging with Regional Musical Identities Through Higher Education and Research
chapter Chapter 6|23 pages
Preserving Cultural Identity: Learning Music and Performing Heritage in a Tibetan Refugee School
chapter Chapter 7|16 pages
Claiming Back the Arctic: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Music as a Voice for the Indigenous subaltern
part |86 pages
Music and Spatial Imaginaries
chapter Chapter 8|15 pages
‘He Is a Piece of Granite…’: Landscape and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden
chapter Chapter 9|19 pages
War, Folklore, and Circumstance: Dimitri Shostakovich's Greek Songs in Transnational Historical Context
chapter Chapter 10|25 pages
‘O Monstrous! O Strange!’: Culture, Nature, and the Places of Music in the Mexican Sotavento
chapter Chapter 11|22 pages
Journeys to Plastic Beach: Navigations Across the Virtual Ocean to Gorillaz' Fictional Island
part |199 pages
Part II
part |54 pages
Music-Making Environments
chapter Chapter 12|15 pages
Person-Environment Relationships: Influences Beyond Acoustics in Musical Performance
chapter Chapter 13|18 pages
The Social and Spatial Basis of Musical Joy: Folk Orc as Special Refuge and Everyday Ritual
chapter Chapter 14|18 pages
Echoes of Mongolia's Sensory Landscape in Shurankhai's ‘Harmonized’ Urtyn Duu
part |75 pages
Designing Creative Spaces
chapter Chapter 16|20 pages
Musicians in Place and Space: Impact of a Spatialized Model of Improvised Music Performance
chapter Chapter 17|17 pages
Space, Engagement, and Immersion: From La Monte Young and Terry Riley to Contemporary Practice
part Chapter 106|67 pages
Musical Spaces and Power