The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place

Geoff Stahl is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is was an executive member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), and a current editorial board member of the New Zealand Journal of Media Studies. He is author of several books including Understanding Media Studies (2010), and Poor But Sexy: Reflections on Berlin Scenes (2014). J. Mark Percival is Senior Lecturer in Media at Queen Margaret University, Scotland. His areas of interest and publications include local music production, music radio, and representations of popular music with a focus on speed and volume.

List of contributors
Introduction (Geoff Stahl, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and J. Mark Percival, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh)
Section I: Theory & method
1. Music, space, place and non-place (Geoff Stahl, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
2. Rhythmanalysis and circulation (Will Straw, McGill University, Canada)
3. Global, local, regional and translocal: Towards a relational approach to scale in popular music (Hyunjoon Shin, Sungkonghoe University, South Korea and Keewong Lee, Sungkonghoe University, South Korea)
4. Sociological perspectives on music and place (Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia)
5. Ethnomusicology and place (Kimberly Cannady, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
6. Political economies of urban music (Shane Homan, Monash University, Australia)
7. Sensobiographic walking and ethnographic approach of the Finnish school of soundscape studies (Helmi Järviluoama, University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

Section II: Space, place and consumption
8. At Home with Sinatra (Keir Keightley, University of Western Ontario, Canada)
9. Music radio (J. Mark Percival, Queen Margaret University, UK)
10. The record shop (Nabeel Zuberi, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
11. The nightclub (Hillegonda C Rietveld, London South Bank University, UK)
12. The live venue (Robert Kronenburg, University of Liverpool, UK)
13. Mobile listening cultures (Raphaël Nowak, Griffith University, Australia)

Section III: Space, place, production and performance
14. In the City - Glasgow (Martin Cloonan, University of Turku, Finland)
15. Bedroom production (Emília Barna, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
16. The Studio (Ruth Dockwray, University of Chester, UK)
17. The virtual studio (Martin K. Koszolko, RMIT, Australia)
18. The space of the record: Something happening somewhere (Simon Zagorski-Thomas, University of West London, UK)
19. The live gig (Sam Whiting, RMIT, Australia)

Section IV: Cities, suburbs, nations and beyond
20. Suburban breakout: Nomadic reverie in British pop (Andrew Branch, University of East London, UK)
21. Sounding South African township life (Kathryn Olsen, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
22. Funk - A musical symbol of Rio de Janeiro's favelas (Vincenzo Cambria, UNIRIO/Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
23. Banlieue: Postcolonial noise: How did French rap (re)invent 'the banlieue'? (Christina Horvath, University of Bath, UK)
24. Music and the nation (Melanie Schiller, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
25. Transnational music (Simone Krüger Bridge, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)

Section V: Selling, celebrating, representing space and place
26. Music and Heritage (Catherine Strong, RMIT, Australia)
27. Music and Tourism (Leonieke Bolderman, Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
28. Festivals (Chris Anderton, Solent University, UK)
29. Cinematic places: Popular music soundtracks and the charge of the real (Kate Bolgar Smith, SOAS University of London, UK)

Index