Music and the Cultural Production of Scale
This open access book shows how geographical scales are made through music. Scales are sets of spatial frames, abstractions or categories that denote the size, proportion, level, extent or hierarchical relations of phenomena. They are neither natural nor neutral but actively produced, with real poli...
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Musical Metropolis: Janelle Monáe's scalar agility
- 3. A postcode-scale genre: Grime's scale as 'level of resolution'
- 4. Musical scale-jumping: 'What a Wonderful World' from Lysekil to Lviv
- 5. The cultural production of scalability: Music, colonialism and the Moravian missionary project
- 6. From the particulars to the general: a small-scale conclusion.