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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Hovedforfatter: Dodds, Phil
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Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Springer Nature 2023
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description 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 political effects. But what role do cultural practices play in the production of scale? Phil Dodds addresses this question by focusing on music, arguing that music scholarship has both most to gain from and most to offer to a fuller conceptualisation of how geographical scale is culturally produced. Dodds suggests that music scholars should treat scales as open questions, and as phenomena potentially made throughmusical practices, rather than as stable categories for framing other arguments about, say, ‘local’ or ‘global’ music. He analyses how the meaning of ‘the local’ is affected by the aesthetics of popular music, and how the relationship between the particular and the general is fused through common musical conventions. Music and the Cultural Production of Scale explores diverse musical examples – including Janelle Monáe’s concept albums, key tracks in the grime genre, protest songs at environmental and anti-fascist demonstrations, and nineteenth-century colonial hymn-singing – to demonstrate how we already live in a world whose scales are made by music. The book also shows that music has the potential to produce a world scaled otherwise.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1175602025-03-20T05:30:48Z Music and the Cultural Production of Scale Dodds, Phil Music Popular Music Human Geography Geographic Scale Local Global Musical Colonization 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 political effects. But what role do cultural practices play in the production of scale? Phil Dodds addresses this question by focusing on music, arguing that music scholarship has both most to gain from and most to offer to a fuller conceptualisation of how geographical scale is culturally produced. Dodds suggests that music scholars should treat scales as open questions, and as phenomena potentially made throughmusical practices, rather than as stable categories for framing other arguments about, say, ‘local’ or ‘global’ music. He analyses how the meaning of ‘the local’ is affected by the aesthetics of popular music, and how the relationship between the particular and the general is fused through common musical conventions. Music and the Cultural Production of Scale explores diverse musical examples – including Janelle Monáe’s concept albums, key tracks in the grime genre, protest songs at environmental and anti-fascist demonstrations, and nineteenth-century colonial hymn-singing – to demonstrate how we already live in a world whose scales are made by music. The book also shows that music has the potential to produce a world scaled otherwise. 2023-10-14T04:01:14Z 2023-10-14T04:01:14Z 2023-10-13T15:43:49Z 2023 book ONIX_20231013_9783031362835_20 OCN: 1403550668 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76731 9783031362835 9783031362828 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/117560 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76731/1/978-3-031-36283-5.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76731/1/978-3-031-36283-5.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76731/1/978-3-031-36283-5.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-36283-5 10.1007/978-3-031-36283-5 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Lund University d0e1cd83-8ecb-44a2-bba8-187a50881e77 9783031362835 9783031362828 Palgrave Macmillan 108 Cham [...] open access
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