Bubbles, Tracks, Borders and Lines

Mapping Music and Urban Landscape

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4408596
AutoresSara Cohen (0000-0001-5841-0721, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen137
Número1
Páginas135-170
Fecha de publicación2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/02690403.2012.669939
OpenAlexW2031577785
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24

This article explores the relationship between music and material urban environments by drawing on ethnographic research with rock and hip-hop musicians. The first of its three sections introduces some of the musicians who participated in that research and the maps they drew to illustrate their music-making activities in the city. The second compares these hand-drawn maps and their various lines and patterns, and relates their differences to music genre and particular urban conditions. The final section of the article explores the broader implications of the maps for conceptualizing the relationship between music and material environments. It starts by considering notions of articulation and mediation and their usefulness for understanding relations between music and material urban environments. Focusing on the maps' detailed lines and patterns, it then describes how music and music-making are mediated by material urban environments, a process involving the navigation of journeys and boundaries and the forging of multiple relations along the way

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Mediation · Music Geography · Music history · Musical · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music History and Culture · Public Spaces through Art