Sounds and the City: Popular Music, Place, and Globalization

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Sounds and the City....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Heart of the Country? The Construction of Nashville as the Capital of Country Music....Pages 19-37
Birmingham’s Postindustrial Metal....Pages 38-54
Black and Brown Get Down: Cultural Politics, Chicano Music, and Hip Hop in Racialized Los Angeles....Pages 55-75
Juidos ‘n’ Decaf Italians: Irony, Blasphemy, and Jewish Shtick....Pages 76-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
‘Why I Decided to Pretend I was American, I Will Never Know’: Rock ‘n’ Roll and ‘The Sixties’ in an English Town....Pages 93-112
Tamla Motown in the UK: Transatlantic Reception of American Rhythm and Blues....Pages 113-127
‘How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?’ Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music, and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’....Pages 128-147
Indieglobalization and the Triumph of Punk in Indonesia....Pages 148-161
Sounds of a ‘Rotting City’: Punk in Russia’s Arctic Hinterland....Pages 162-182
True Norwegian Black Metal — The Globalized, Mythological Reconstruction of the Second Wave of Black Metal in 1990s Oslo....Pages 183-195
Continental Drift: The Politics and Poetics of African Hip Hop....Pages 196-208
One Day on Earth: Music, Documentary Film-Making, and Global Soundscapes....Pages 209-224
Intersecting Rhythms: The Spatial Production of Local Canadian Heavy Metal and Urban Aboriginal Hip Hop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada....Pages 225-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Reconstruction’s Soundtrack....Pages 243-257
We’re Going to Graceland: Globalization and the Reimagining of Memphis....Pages 258-272
Characterizing the Cold War: Music and Memories of Berlin, 1960–1989....Pages 273-284
Outback Elvis: Musical Creativity in Rural Australia....Pages 285-301
In Search of ‘Independent’ Brisbane: Music, Memory, and Cultural Heritage....Pages 302-316
Afterword: Reflections on Popular Music, Place, and Globalization....Pages 317-319
Back Matter....Pages 320-323