This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.
Introduction.- Heard, not scene? Dublins popular music viewed from the inside and outside.- You get to know the scene inside out, but the cost of travel is a burden: The impacts of isolation and peripherality on the contemporary music scene of Perth, Western Australia.- Wild Nights in the Cool North: Embracing Otherness in Icelandic and Faroese Music Festivals.- The Dawson City Music Festival and a Small-town Scene at the Periphery of the Music Industries.- Social media in Chiles indie music scene: crossing local and global boundaries.- Linguistic and Geographic Diversitys Impact on Popular Music in Papua New Guinea.- Industrial Isolation and Cultural Self-Exile: The Formation of an Independent Music Scene in Montreal.- Dont Mess With Texas: Austins Roundtrip Journey from the Periphery to the Center of the Earth.- Conclusion.
Dr Christina Ballico is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia, and the co-editor of
Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Policy Concept (2020).
This welcome addition to the literature explores the connection between music and the social production of remote places. In a series of case studies from around the world, the book succinctly lays out the challenges of peripheral locales, but we also learn how musical activities emerge because they take place in the periphery, not just in spite of relative isolation. In a timely fashion, Christina Ballico and her co-authors effectively communicate these ideas in the context of a contemporary, inter-connected world.
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