Overview
- Analyses the influence of music city policies and planning oriented policies on the development of urban electronic music scenes
- Explores links between cultural policies and the built form mediated by the creative city discourse
- Provides a better understanding of what urban electronic music scenes are today, how they operate in the contemporary context, and what kind of policies influence their development
- Comprises a valuable resource for policy makers, students and academics in Creative Industries/Music Studies/Urban Studies/Urban Planning/Architecture and Urban Design
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This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. It focuses on the historical development of these scenes, with an emphasis on the post-2000 context, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching effects. Expert contributors highlight the influence of geographical contexts, as well as cultural and political histories, in the development of mainstream EDM scenes and underground Electronic Dance Music Cultures. This expansive work offers additional insights on cultural and creative policies, planning interventions and regulations associated with nightlife management, and provides a detailed analysis of current challenges inherent to the governance of EDM scenes in contemporary cities.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Part I
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Reviews
“Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Spaces in the 21st Century is a welcome contribution to the ‘urban turn’ in popular music studies. It moves beyond the analysis of styles and venues, setting musical practice within complex networks of policy, economic history and metropolitan politics. These fascinating case studies take us beyond the self-proclaimed ‘capitals’ of electronic music, into a rich variety of cities whose abandoned urban spaces became breeding grounds for music seeking to invent new futures.” (Will Straw, Professor of Urban Media Studies, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University, Montreal)
“Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Spaces in the 21st Century brings a new perspective to understanding urban development and urban cultural policy-making. The book uncovers an incredible variety of stories and scenes from cities around the globe to help us better understand how music shapes the city and how the city shapes music.” (Carl Grodach, Foundation Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Monash University)
“This new edited collection provides a brilliant insight into the dynamic relationship between electronic dance music cultures and the cities from which they emerge. It investigates the myriad ways in which subcultural narratives are woven into the fabric of a city and how the struggle for space is played out in, on and under its streets. At a moment when the night-time economy is under such threat, this is a handbook for survival.” (Alice O’Grady, Professor in Applied Performance, University of Leeds, UK)
“Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Spaces in the 21st Century brings a new perspective to understanding urban development and urban cultural policy-making. The book uncovers an incredible variety of stories and scenes from cities around the globe to help us better understand how music shapes the city and how the city shapes music.” (Carl Grodach, Foundation Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Monash University)
“This new edited collection provides a brilliant insight into the dynamic relationship between electronic dance music cultures and the cities from which they emerge. It investigates the myriad ways in which subcultural narratives are woven into the fabric of a city and how the struggle for space is played out in, on and under its streets. At a moment when the night-time economy is under such threat, this is a handbook for survival.” (Alice O’Grady, Professor in Applied Performance, University of Leeds, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Sébastien Darchen is Senior Lecturer in Planning at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Dr. Damien Charrieras is an Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.
Dr. John Willsteed toured the world through the late 80s in The Go-Betweens and is a member of award-winning Brisbane group Halfway. He is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Dr. Damien Charrieras is an Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.
Dr. John Willsteed toured the world through the late 80s in The Go-Betweens and is a member of award-winning Brisbane group Halfway. He is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Electronic Cities
Book Subtitle: Music, Policies and Space in the 21st Century
Editors: Sébastien Darchen, Damien Charrieras, John Willsteed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4741-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4740-3Published: 20 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4743-4Published: 21 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4741-0Published: 19 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 303
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Music