[ANPPOM-L] livro: música e geografia urbana

[carlos palombini]

To some peoples' astonishment, the long-touted _Music and Urban Geography_ book is now out. Below please find the announcement; incidentally, because of some malfunction in Routledge's system (!), the descriptions on the U.S. and Canada Amazon sites are wrong, whereas that on the U.K. site is correct:
 
Adam Krims, Music and Urban Geography (New York: Routledge, 2007), paperback and hardcover

Music and Urban Geography is the first wide-range study of how changes in major cities in the developed world in the past few decades have affected music, as well as the roles music has played in those changes. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography, and historical materialism, Adam Krims maps the effect of urban geography on how music is performed, sold, and experienced.

Taking on venerable musicological debates from entirely new perspectives, Krims argues that the cultural-studies approach now predominant in cultural musicology fails to address the contemporary realities of production and consumption. Instead, the social effects of space and new patterns of urban production play a shaping role, in which music takes on new forms and functions.

Ranging from Anonymous 4 to Alanis Morissette, from Curaçao to Seattle, and bridging several disciplines, Music and Urban Geography brings new and provocative ideas to the study of how music shapes its world and how the urban world, in turn, shapes the music.

Adam Krims is Professor of Music Analysis at the University of Nottingham. He is author of the award-winning book Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (2000).

Best,
 
Adam Krims
 
Adam Krims
Professor of Music Analysis
University of Nottingham

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