Music, Space and Place

Examines the urban and rural spaces in which music is experienced, produced and consumed. Important discourses are explored concerning national culture and identity, as well as how identity is constructed through the exchanges that occur between displaced peoples of the world's many diasporas.

Andy Bennett

Introduction; 1: Music, Space and Place; 1: The musical construction of the diaspora: the case of reggae and Rastafari 1; 2: Who is the 'other' in the Balkans? Local ethnic music as a different source of identities in Bulgaria 1; 3: 'Power-geometry' in motion: space, place and gender in the lyra music of Crete; 4: Interrogating the production of sound and place: the Bristol phenomenon, from Lunatic Fringe to worldwide Massive; 2: Rap and Hip Hop: Community and Cultural Identity; 5: The emergence of rap Cubano: an historical perspective; 6: Doin' damage in my native language: the use of 'resistance vernaculars' in hip hop in Europe and Aotearoa/New Zealand; 7: Rapp'in' the Cape: style and memory, power in community 1; 3: Musical Production and the Politics of Desire; 8: Positioning the producer: gender divisions in creative labour and value; 9: 'Believe': vocoders, digital female identity and camp 1; 10: On performativity and production in Madonna's 'Music'; 11: 'He's Got the Power': the politics of production in girl group music