ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores imagining place through music by interviewing music streamers about their holiday playlists. It describes three music workshops and analyzed how amateur musicians make music in place, where the experience of the workshop space, the local host culture, and the translocal music community fed back into the way music afforded embodied musical experiences of belonging. The chapter argues that music is capable of creating touristic spaces in specific ways and can add an affective dimension to tourism experiences. The music workshops even offered fully absorbed embodied experiences, analyzed through the notion of flow. Music tourists across the interview studies related in complex ways to host communities. Music tourism in many respects is the setting of tensions between attitudes of tourism and anti-tourism, professed by both tourists themselves and by researchers.
