Introduction

Ballico, Christina; Watson, Allan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35872-3_1

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“…UNESCO’s award of ‘music city’ status rests on criteria including ‘music heritage, background in musicmaking, education, community involvement, regular high-profile local music events, and international music events’ (Taylor, 2022: 315). Not all of these are amongst the internationally acknowledged ‘superstar’ (Ballico and Watson, 2020: 2) cities whose reputation as music hubs precedes them. Nevertheless, the emergence and increasing prominence of widely touted urban music centres outside of capital cities (such as Nashville, Austin, Melbourne and Liverpool) fed a concomitant growth in the use of music as a tool to leverage tourism and, associated with this, a perception of music as a driver of economic growth and urban development.…”

Section: Glasgow As a Music Tourism Destinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is useful, then, to distinguish between a ‘music city’ as a geographical, as an industrial and as an institutional, policy-oriented formulation. Ballico and Watson (2020: 3) distinguish between music scenes and the ‘Music City’ while acknowledging that the latter concept is ‘useful to understand the structure and functioning of place-specific and, more closely, city-based music scenes’. Glasgow, certainly, has a rich history of prominent musical activity, heritage and community involvement (per the UNESCO criteria).…”

Section: Glasgow As a Music Tourism Destinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Curating the music city: The accommodation sector in Glasgow’s music tourism ecology

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Behr

2023

Tourist Studies

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Since becoming a UNESCO ‘City of Music’ in 2008, Glasgow has sought to develop the tourism potential of its music scene. As potential beneficiaries, accommodation providers have facilitated the development of music tourism initiatives within the city, strategically positioning themselves as ambassadors for the city’s music. This article considers how three Glasgow hotels ‘curate’ the musical life of the city, presenting themselves as facilitators of cultural experiences rather than mere service providers. We draw on interviews alongside an analysis of marketing discourse to show how this approach is reflected in the physical space of hotels, recruitment practices, and the language of promotional materials. Arguing that the packaging of musical experience often implies an instrumentalist understanding of music’s cultural value, we consider what it means for music to be re-imagined as an ‘experience’, and how music’s value as a resource for self-construction is articulated within the discourse of contemporary tourism.

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Section: Glasgow As a Music Tourism Destinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Glasgow As a Music Tourism Destinationmentioning

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Curating the music city: The accommodation sector in Glasgow’s music tourism ecology

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Behr

2023

Tourist Studies

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“…To this end, 'creative city' strategies have been adopted by many local governments seeking to attract investment in creative industries, expand a city's cultural offer, strengthen the service economy and reorient their urban identity (see Barnes et al, 2006;Goldberg-Miller, 2019;Waitt & Gibson, 2009). In some cases, such strategies have involved placing a significant emphasis on popular music to the extent that they brand themselves as 'music cities' (Ballico & Watson, 2020). This trend encompasses promoting contemporary live music scenes as well as looking to the past through popular music heritage initiatives.…”

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Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City

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Cantillon

Nowak

2023

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The celebration of popular music can be an important mode of cultural expression and a source of pride for urban communities. This Element analyses the capacity for popular music heritage to enact cultural justice in the deindustrialising cities of Wollongong, Australia; Detroit, USA; and Birmingham, UK. The Element develops a critical approach to cultural justice for examining music and the city in a heritage context and outlines how the quest for cultural justice manifests in three key ways: collection, preservation and archiving; curation, storytelling and heritage interpretation; and mobilising communities for collective action.

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“…This project focuses specifically on the analysis of music murals in Detroit, USA, since music takes on specific salience in the context of gentrification. Music is an especially potent catalyst of local place identity (Connell & Gibson, 2003) and place attachment (Bolderman, 2020; Bolderman & Reijnders, 2021), and can play a key role in the negotiation of social inequalities, specifically in an urban context (Ballico & Watson, 2020; Cantillon et al, 2020). While music and murals are a rich fit for studying the symbolic potential of public space in the media city, in the urban imaginary of Detroit, music plays a central role.…”

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#Detroit Music City: Analyzing Detroit’s Musical Urban Imaginary Through a Cultural Justice Lens

Bolderman

2022

Space and Culture

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In this article, the ways murals can become symbols of both heritage and divisive gentrification processes are analyzed in the context of the contemporary media city. Taking the case of Detroit, USA, how is the urban imaginary of the “music city” mediated through street art, and its meaning reconstituted and reframed in the contemporary networked mediasphere? Applying a cultural justice perspective, a selection of Detroit music murals, their Instagram lives, and the public debates surrounding three specific street art projects are analyzed along (1) the symbologies of place the murals represent, (2) the historiographies of space attached to the murals, (3) the social ties and community networks that keep the murals in place or protest their presence. This study shows that the proposed cultural justice framework offers an opportunity to more fully understand how cultural materialities such as murals shape mediated public space in areas of gentrification.

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Introduction

Cited by 4 publications

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Curating the music city: The accommodation sector in Glasgow’s music tourism ecology

Curating the music city: The accommodation sector in Glasgow’s music tourism ecology

Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City

#Detroit Music City: Analyzing Detroit’s Musical Urban Imaginary Through a Cultural Justice Lens

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