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  • Interrogating Popular Music and the City

    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Music and cities have been partners in an often clumsy, sometimes accidental but always exciting dance. Heritage and immigration, ... Read more

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  • Music City Melbourne

    Urban Culture, History and Policy

    How did Melbourne earn its place as one of the world's 'music cities'? Beginning with the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, this book explores the development of different sectors of Melbourne's popular music ecosystem in parallel with broader population, urban planning and media industry changes in the city.The authors draw on interviews with Melbourne musicians, venue owners and policy ... Read more

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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy

    Edited by Prof Shane Homan ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music policy has become an important arm of government, and a contentious arena of global debate across areas ... Read more

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  • The Music Export Business

    Born Global

    Series series Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
    The Music Export Business examines the workings of the fast-changing world of music industry exports. The music industry is in a state of flux, resulting from changes in technology, markets, government policies and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic.In analysing the ability of organisations to access international markets from inception, this book assesses global trends in music industry business ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Popular Music Industries and the State

    Policy Notes

    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
    This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries, comparing three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. At a time when issues of globalization and locality are seldom out of the news, musicians, fans, governments, and industries are forced to reconsider older certainties about popular music activity and their roles in production and ... Read more

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  • Popular Music and Cultural Policy

    Popular music is increasingly visible in government strategies and policies. While much has been written about the expanding flow of music products and music creativity in emphasising the global nature of popular music, little attention has been paid to the flow of ideas about policy formation and debates between regions and nations. This book examines specific regional and national histories, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Canada has one of the most advanced mass-media systems in the world, which allows Canadians more access to American culture via television, the movies, and the Internet than ever before. At the same time, governments support the production and distribution of Canadian content to Canadians.In this fully updated fourth edition, Mary Vipond traces the rise of the traditional mass media in Canada, ... Read more

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  • Urban Nation

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    Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage provides the first national survey of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape. This ambitious account looks at every state and territory from the earliest days of European settlement to the present day. It identifies and documents hundreds of places - parks, public spaces, redeveloped precincts, neighbourhoods, ... Read more

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    Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock waves that rippled outward, affecting entire regions, countries, and beyond.Scholars from France, Canada, ... Read more

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    Edited by Paul Jenkins, Leslie Forsyth ...
    How can architects best increase their engagement with building users and wider society to provide better architecture?Since the mid 1990s government policy has promoted the idea of greater social participation in the production and management of the built environment but there has been limited direction to the practising architect.Reviewing international cases and past experiences to analyze what ... Read more

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  • Urban Music and Entrepreneurship

    Beats, Rhymes and Young People's Enterprise

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    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). However, the NEET categorisation covertly disguises and obscures the significance of the diverse range of activities, achievements and accomplishments of those who operate in the informal creative economy ... Read more

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