ABSTRACT
The geography of creative and media industries has attracted much research scrutiny for global city researchers. More generally, the city provides the concrete places which offer spaces for musical creativity. Cities also sustain networks that foster and support musical creativity. However, networks of musical creativity are at the same time fluid. Musical knowledge has always moved within and between cities through mobile creatives, including musicians and DJs, producers, and music industry executives. Diverse neighbourhoods provide the opportunity for the mutual exchange of musical styles and practices amongst different cultural groups, increasing wider exposure to a set of atonal ensembles of diverse musical cultural expressions. In examining local musical creativity and music industries, we must also recognise the role of supply and demand in the local economy. Large abandoned urban industrial spaces, such as old warehouses and factories, are transformed symbolically in imaginative landscapes through the material practices of musical creativity.
