Sounds and the City ― Popular Music, Place and Globalization

As both distinctive local terrain and global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music. From Gillett's The Sound of the City (1970) to Krims' Music and Urban Geography (2007), attention to popular music has allowed various soundings of the often unfathomable aspects of urban life. This book takes as its focus the social relations produced amidst and through popular music and cities. Such a focus allows a test of theories of globalization, hybridity, consumerism, networks and transnational flows of people, cultures and musical products. Covering themes as diverse as Russian Punk and African Hip-Hop, this global collection offers a timely contribution to the advancement of popular music studies.

Brett Lashua is Senior Lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is Principal Editor of the journal Metal Music Studies, and Secretary of the International Society for Metal Music Studies. His publications include The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure, Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates, and Whiteness and Leisure.

Stephen Wagg is Professor of Sport and Society in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His latest books are: The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure (edited), The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (edited), Thatchers's Grandchildren? Politics and Childhood in the Twenty First Century (edited) and Leisure Studies: Principles and Practice (co-authored).