Adam Krims

Music and Urban Geography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book theorizes musical aspects of changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over past decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography and historical materialism, Krims maps changes in how music represents cities and also in how music sounds and is deployed socially in new urban contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415970129
• ISBN-10: 0415970121
• Artikelnr.: 22445444

Autorenporträt

Adam Krims is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Institute for Popular Music at the University of Nottingham, UK. His previous book, Rap Music and thePoetics of Identity (2000), was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of the Year.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defining the Urban Ethos 2. Space, Place, and Popular Music in Curaçao
and Elsewhere 3. Mourning the Impossible Libidinal City in Boogie Nights 4.
Marxist Music Analysis after Adorno 5. Music for the Design-Intensive City
6. Music for the Design-Intensive City Notes Bibliography Index