Popular music in Singapore: exploring local cultures, global resources, and regional identities
The exploration of local influences and global forces in the production of music is focused upon. In analysing the music of Dick Lee, a Singaporean artiste, the A. illustrates how music is an expression of local/national influences. This music
Popular music in a transnational world : the construction of local identities in Singapore
and artiste whose works are part of the popular music industry mainstream, and that of Mandarin songs of the genre xinyao, the A. shows that, despite increasing globalising forces, music is still an expression of local/national influences.
The focus is on the exploration of local influences and global forces in the production of music. The A. explores how local resources intersect with global ones in a process of transculturation. Using the example of English songs by a songwriter
We sing our home, We dance our land : indigenous self-determination and contemporary geopolitics in Australian popular music
-determination and self expression can exist. The emergence of a vibrant Aboriginal popular music scene requires a rethinking of Australian music, and appeals for greater recognition of Aboriginal artists' sophisticated geopolitical strategies.
A. reviews the publications, conferences, and conference paper sessions over the last three decades dealing with the geography of music. Most of the research has centered on American folk and popular music. Certain areas of music geography have been
almost ignored : geographic mapping of music styles, the geography of ethnic music, religious and martial music, and stage and film music. A. concludes with comments on the other articles in issue. - (SLD)
The AA. discuss previous work on music by geographers before tracing themes of universality and particularity through classical and popular musics. They consider issues of economy, society, polity and culture in the universal and national musics
of the classical tradition, the modern global popular music industry and alternative popular musics.
Southwestern Louisiana is the hearth area for zydeco music, a blend of African-American and African-French traditions. It developed into a distinctive genre when rhythm-and-blues music was grafted onto it. Zydeco as a kind of music has spread
Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; Globalization ; Music ; Territory
A travers les âges et les continents, la musique voyage et se prête à tous les métissages. Au rythme de ses métamorphoses, elle se confond avec l'histoire des peuples : n'en est-elle pas la plus vibrante expression ?
Research on the geographical dimension of music in the USA since the 1960s has resulted in more than 25 articles. Most studies have investigated origins and diffusion of musical styles, especially « rock-and-roll » and « country ». - (DWG)
Music is a powerful source of images and symbolism and has a geographical dimension. Examples provided of analyzing music involving rivers and mountains. - (DWG)
Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Diffusion ; Language ; Music ; Young people
Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, l'attirance de la jeunesse pour les expressions artistiques (cinéma et musique) venant des Etats-Unis, relayés par la Grande-Bretagne, a joué un rôle majeur dans l'expansion de la langue anglaise dans le
monde et notamment en Europe. La période 1966-71 a été l'âge d'or du rock'n roll. Il n'est guère plus aujourd'hui que la pop music, un produit de consommation divertissant qui a perdu en révolte ce qu'il a gagné parfois en valeur musicale.
Country music ; Culturel ; Etats-Unis ; Folklore ; Loisir ; Régionalisation ; Régression multiple ; Ville
AA. examine 10 culture regions, adapted from Zelinsky's The Cultural Geography of the United States (1973), via 162 metropolitan listening areas (for which listenership ratings data exist). They found country music listenership inversely related
to population size and median household income. Country music is most popular in the Upland South (where et originated), Great Plains, and Texas/Oklahoma regions. There is a general aversion to such music in the New England and Middle Atlantic regions. - (SLD)
Beginning in the 1970s, a small non-descript village in the Missouri Ozarks has become a major center for country music performances. In 1993, more than five million tourists came there to listen to this music, complementing Nashville, Tennessee 500
The sounds of people and places: a geography of American folk and popular music
Twenty-one essays on geographical aspects of musical styles and regional associations of music in the USA and Canada. Some studies focus on place (e.g. Ozarks or Oklahoma); others on type (e.g. blues, jazz, zydeco, bluegrass, rock and roll). - (DWG)
The evolution of Taipei’s music industry : cluster and network dynamics in the innovation practices of the music industry
Cluster ; Creative industry ; Firm strategy ; Industry ; Innovation ; Music industry ; Network ; Path dependence ; Popular music ; Taipei ; Taiwan
This paper explores the spatial and organisational dynamics of innovation activities using Taipei’s music industry as a case study. It illustrates how the cluster and network elements of the music industry are intertwined in innovation practices
. It argues that the innovation dynamics of Taipei’s music industry are a hybrid feature of Taipei’s cluster environment and the strategic competencies of music project networks rather than the local cluster effect. In conclusion, a different trajectory
for the evolution of Taipei’s music industry is presented. Additionally, this dynamic process between cluster and network makes Taipei a hybrid creative platform that is an active element in the cultivation of the innovative competencies of Taipei’s music producers
Western North Carolina : culture hearth of bluegrass music
Bluegrass music ; Culturel ; Etats-Unis ; Folklore ; North Carolina
Western North Carolina is identified as the cultural hearth (source area) of bluegrass music. There local musicians and bands created the bluegrass sound and a local music infrastructure emerged that supported innovation and established outlets
Music in the fields : constructing narratives of the late 19th century Hawaiian plantation cultural landscape
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Discourse ; Hawaii ; Music ; Plantation
The paper is theoretically underpinned by discourses on the contested nature intrinsic to cultural landscapes. Music is used as a means of exploring socio-cultural contexts. It studies the limited set of published lyrics of hole bushi, the music