[ecrea] Music Cities Edited Collection: Call for Chapter Proposals

*Music cities edited collection: Call for chapter proposals*

 >From the physical spaces in which music activity takes place, to the 
mythologizing of city-specific music scenes, the city has long played a 
vital role in the development and sustaining of music scenes. In recent 
years there has been a concerted effort to cultivate and nurture musical 
activity as a key driver for urban economic development and for 
city-specific tourism. Cities around the world are now looking to 
cultivate and support music activity in a bid to activate new forms of 
cultural and creative identity. This has occurred off the back of 
similar creative and cultural cities movements, and works to move beyond 
the mythologizing of particular cities music scenes in order to 
legitimise music as a place-specific cultural output which contributes 
significantly to local identities as well as to local economies. To this 
end, music is positioned as making a vital contribution to the cultural 
and economic fabric of a city, and is viewed as a critical way through 
which both locals and tourists can gauge, and engage with, a city’s 
cultural and creative identities. In order to foster this, an array of 
heritage and planning accords, live music regulation, tourism 
initiatives and even tax exemptions have been put in place, and an array 
of industry and government developed place-specific reports and 
activation ‘how-to’ manuals have been developed in order to understand 
the scope of place-specific music activity and the ways in which it can 
be cultivated and supported.

With a particular focus on heritage, planning, tourism and regulatory 
measures, we invite rigorous place-specific case studies exploring, both 
empirically and conceptually, the ways in which the music cities 
movement has emerged globally, yet is grounded in a variety of local 
urban, cultural and political contexts.

Proposals for chapters should consist of a title and an abstract of no 
more than 250 words, along with author name(s), bio (of no more than 150 
words) affiliation, and e-mail address. It is envisage that published 
chapters will be 6,500 – 7,000 words in length. We have a very 
enthusiastic academic publisher interested in pursuing this collection 
with us.

*Proposals should be e-mailed to (musiccitiesbook /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(musiccitiesbook /at/ gmail.com)> by May 15, 2017.*


Dr Christina Ballico (Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, 
Griffith University)
Dr Allan Watson (Department of Geography, Loughborough University)



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