Music geography is a sub-field within both urban geography and cultural geography. Music geography is the study of music production and consumption as a reflection of the landscape and geographical spaces surrounding it. It became evident that individuals associate music with space.
Historically, music was purely an oral tradition that was replaced by the introduction of radio broadcasting in the 1920s. Folk music was the first genre of music to be researched and analyzed by scholars due to its nature of movement across regions in its style.
John Connell suggests links between:
music, tradition and authenticity, reinvented in the public space of the city; it demonstrates how technological changes (notably the digitization of music) have informed local music production, generated new home recording cultures and small scale entrepreneurialism.
John Strait's studies of the migration of blues in the Mississippi Delta shows the association of and circulation of musical culture across the globe.
References
- Warf, Barney. "Encyclopedia of Geography: Music and Sound, Geography and." SAGE Knowledge (2010): 1-7. Print.
- White, Billy D., and Frederick A. Day. "Country Music Radio and American Culture Regions." Journal of Cultural Geography 16.2 (1997): 21-35. Print.
- Connell, John, and Chris Gibson.Soundtracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place. London: Routledge, 2003. Print.
- Strait, John. "Experiencing Blues at the Crossroads: A Place-Based Method for Teaching the Geography of Blues Culture." Journal of Geography ( Houston) 111.5 (2012): 194-209. Print.
Further reading
- Hancock- Barnett, Coralie. "Colonial Resettlement and Cultural Resistance: The Mbira Music of Zimbabwe." Social and Cultural Geography 13.1 (2012): 11–27. Print.
- Adam Krims.Music and Urban Geography. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group:New York, 2007.
- Roger Martínez Sanmartí. Taste in music as a cultural production.Barcelona: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2007
- Conell, J. and Gibson, C.Sound tracks: popular music, identinty and place.Routledge Taylor & Francis Group:New York, 2001
- Simone Krüger & Ruxandra Trandafoiu.The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism
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