Giacomo Bottà
Biographic Data
| ID | 6301894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giacomo Bottà |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giacomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bottà |
| SIGNATURE | BOTTÀ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3983-9164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Extracting the night
Becoming Sustainable, Underground
In the pandemic summer of 2020 in Helsinki, UG (underground) outdoor parties were able to disengage electronic live music practices from profit making and the logics of cultural extractivism, offering a sustainable practice by and for the local techno music scene. In this article, the UG parties are understood as a learning experience, in which sustainability gave access to a different way to produce and consume culture, in particular thanks to: …
Nocturnal urban imaginaries
Nocturnal urban imaginaries are a powerful instrument to examine how the night has been planned, experienced, and thought of in post-industrial urban settings. Through these imaginaries, we tackle Turin’s shift from one company town to post-industrial city and its implication for the night and its activities. Thanks to a qualitative analysis of interviews with a data-driven modality we make sense of the way night punters approach going out. We id…
The Sound of Düsseldorf city walk
This article explores and contextualizes the in-person and remote implementation of The Sound of Düsseldorf city walk, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Music tourism and authenticity in the music walk, and its temporary activation of places via performance, storytelling and sounds, are discussed. The article also focuses on the opportunities offered by the digital implementation of the tour and how successful the attempt to mediate local …
Ewa Mazierska, Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015
Ewa Mazierska, Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 239 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-71391-8 (hbk)
Nocturnes
The city that was creative and did not know
This article explores the relation between popular music and creative cities through the example of Manchester between 1976 and 1997. The formation of a local music scene is analysed through the notion of urban creative milieu stating its historical debt to the city industrial heritage; place-images produced by the local popular music scene are analysed as visual, aural and lyrical productions. The article examines the consolidation of the consid…
The city that was creative and did not know
This article explores the relation between popular music and creative cities through the example of Manchester between 1976 and 1997. The formation of a local music scene is analysed through the notion of urban creative milieu stating its historical debt to the city industrial heritage; place-images produced by the local popular music scene are analysed as visual, aural and lyrical productions. The article examines the consolidation of the consid…
The city that was creative and did not know
This article explores the relation between popular music and creative cities through the example of Manchester between 1976 and 1997. The formation of a local music scene is analysed through the notion of urban creative milieu stating its historical debt to the city industrial heritage; place-images produced by the local popular music scene are analysed as visual, aural and lyrical productions. The article examines the consolidation of the consid…
Nocturnes
Ewa Mazierska, Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015
Ewa Mazierska, Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990–2015. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 239 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-71391-8 (hbk)
The Sound of Düsseldorf city walk
This article explores and contextualizes the in-person and remote implementation of The Sound of Düsseldorf city walk, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Music tourism and authenticity in the music walk, and its temporary activation of places via performance, storytelling and sounds, are discussed. The article also focuses on the opportunities offered by the digital implementation of the tour and how successful the attempt to mediate local …
Becoming Sustainable, Underground
In the pandemic summer of 2020 in Helsinki, UG (underground) outdoor parties were able to disengage electronic live music practices from profit making and the logics of cultural extractivism, offering a sustainable practice by and for the local techno music scene. In this article, the UG parties are understood as a learning experience, in which sustainability gave access to a different way to produce and consume culture, in particular thanks to: …
Nocturnal urban imaginaries
Nocturnal urban imaginaries are a powerful instrument to examine how the night has been planned, experienced, and thought of in post-industrial urban settings. Through these imaginaries, we tackle Turin’s shift from one company town to post-industrial city and its implication for the night and its activities. Thanks to a qualitative analysis of interviews with a data-driven modality we make sense of the way night punters approach going out. We id…
Extracting the night
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Night-time city culture (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Popular music (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)