Beyond geography's visible worlds
A Cultural Politics of Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8077673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan J Smith (0000-0001-7705-2077, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 502-529 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Progress in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1191/030913297675594415 |
| OpenAlex | W2143891600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 106 |
| References cited | 49 |
Within human geography, the meeting between art matters and cultural politics has been a predominantly visual affair. However, this article argues that sound is as important as sight for the project of geography, and that music has as secure a place as the visual arts in the study of social life. For example, while cultural studies of Renaissance Italy have focused on the way that landscape painting encapsulates the political economy of the period, I consider why the ‘truths’ of the time were nurtured as much by filling space with sound as by depicting place on canvas. Similarly, although painters are able vividly to depict the impact of industrialization on the English landscape, by exploring the spaces of music – a more neglected route into the historical geography of modern Britain – I suggest there is more to the link between art and industrialism than first meets the eye. Finally, building on maps of race and racism drawn up from ethnography, narrative and visual representation, I tease out the contested terrain of music, and identify it as a medium through which those whose condition society tries its best not to see can begin to make themselves heard
Aesthetics · Art · Cultural geography · Human geography · Literature · Music Geography · Narrative · Painting · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social geography · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philippine History and Culture · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Sounding Jewish in Berlin
Geografia E Música
“Miami, New Orleans, London, Belfast, and Berlin”
Popular music and iconic artists in contemporary geographical analyses in higher education—learning and understanding tourism geographies through Céline Dion’s music and travel
The Urban Soundscapes of a Studentified Neighbourhood in the City of Tshwane, South Africa
Sounding the Holocaust, silencing the city
‘Singing acts’ from the deep North
Mapping the geography of choirs in Sweden
Territorio Y Música - Un Diálogo, Múltiples Ecos
Fitting in
Music in factories
Radio and the anti-geopolitical ear
Sonic geographies
Place, tourism and cultural entrepreneurship
Vestigial Pop
Lou Reed’s Emotional Geography
Music, Nature, Power, and Place
A Biographic Researcher in Pursuit of an Aesthetic
From the Bronx to the Wilderness
Voice
Spanish sound studies
The Bergsonian Link Between Emotion, Music and Place
Is there an Indian way of raving? Reading the cultural negotiations of Indian youth in the trans-local EDM scene
Cool aid? Health, wellbeing and place in the work of Bono and U2
Connecting Research with Communities through Performative Social Science
Representing place in the music lyrics of Australia’s Midnight Oil
Tamworth, Australia's ‘country music capital’
Country life’? Rurality, folk music and ‘Show of Hands’
Festival heterotopias
Rural cultural resourcefulness
Sound the alarm
Urbanism, group size, and regional milieus
Geography and music
Music and moral geographies
Contesting culture
A most public of musical performances
Geopolitical music to the students’ minds
A taxonomy for communication geography
Aura ou de la production politique de la musique hip-hop
We Travel the Spaceways
The Unbearable Closeness of The East
Weathering
Traversing the Urban Soundscape
Musique et perception de la montagne à travers les poèmes symphoniques de Liszt, Franck et Strauss
Music and the perception of the mountains through the symphonic poems of Liszt, Franck and Strauss
Geography and film music
Place, Culture and Identity
Sonic spaces, spiritual bodies
Relating to the land
The neoliberalization of Contemporary Christian Music’s new Social Gospel
Commodification and the selling of ethnic music to tourists
Constructing contemporary artistic identities in Toronto neighbourhoods
You Gotta Love This City
Landings
Rural songs for Covid ‐19 times? UK folk music's resurgent engagement with the countryside
The screams all sound the same
Noise in G uangzhou
Comics and Zines for Creative Research Impact
Feeling the range
World music
A walk of art
Sonic methods, sonic affects
Commodity Cultures
Creating the semi‐living
Dissonance
Getting participants' voices heard
How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound
A sonic geography of voice
On that demon time
The Role of Music in an Arts-Based Qualitative Inquiry
Jirra
Utopian Music and the Problem of Luxury
Music, Tourism and the Transformation of Memphis
Spaces and Networks of Musical Creativity in the City
Sound and fury? Film score and the geopolitics of instrumental music
The Spaces, Politics, and Cultural Economies of Electronic Dance Music
Sonic geographies
Performance and atmosphere in urban public spaces
Musical Geopolitics
Researching Music- and Place-Making Through Engaged Practice
Geography in the United Kingdom 1996-2000
The Critical Geopolitics of Danger in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
Music and the Politics of Sound
Failing on Deaf Ears
Colonial resettlement and cultural resistance
Black to Detroit
Hearing Places, Making Spaces
Instrumental routes to emotional geographies
Healing the Cut
Performing the (Sound)World
Las Krudas, Spatial Practice, and the Performance of Diaspora
Sonic geography in a nature region
Practices of music and sound
Performing Guangzhou and Guangzhou Ren
Rethinking music geography through the mainstream
Linguistic sound walks
Female artistic identity in place
Dissonant seas
Trance and visibility at dawn
(Em)placing the popular in Cultural Geography
Englishness
Performing Rites
Sociology and Visual Representation
Visual Culture
The field of cultural production
The Varieties of sensory experience
Studying popular music
Social formation and symbolic landscape
Modernity and identity
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City
James Scott and the Culture of Classic Ragtime
Reclaiming Vision
Geography and the cultural politics of advertising
Popular music in geographical analyses
New material? Work in cultural and social geography, 1995
Smellscape
Reflections on Jazz and the Politics of Race
Jazz as a Cultural Archive
Social movements and cultural transformation
This is a sampling sport
Visualizing Landscape
Parallels in the Social Reactions to Jazz and Rock
The Negro Music Journal
Geography and the Disabled
The Place of Music
Sound and the Geographer
Bounding the Borders
Hiawatha and Pan- Africanism
The South Atlantic Quarterly
Conspiracies of Meaning
Art, Ideology, and Everyday Space
Subcultural identity in alternative music culture
Victorian bands and their dissemination in the colonies
Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rhetoric in the Music of Public Enemy
Sweet Soul Music
Anraje to Angaje
Rap, race and politics
Rap Remix
Doubleness and Jazz Improvisation
| Unique citing works | 106 |
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| Citations per year | 3,79 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 104 |