ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the model of creating attachments to place: how music listeners imagine places and what these imagined places mean to them. It examines the underlying process by which music audiences imagine musical places, and the meaning of these imagined places in their love of music. Music combines the interpretive and the experiential dimensions of imagining in a particularly embodied way, mediating between cognition and affect. The sounds of music, such as specific music rhythms, structures, and vocal accents, were associated with particular places. Playlist making and streaming are practices that potentially give access to rich imaginative musical worlds, while the music collections reflect and shape ways to both engage with and retreat from the landscapes traveled through, either virtually or physically. The question arose how music as an intangible medium is part of these musical mythscapes and, moreover, how mythscapes become affectively laden – how place meanings turn into place attachments.
