Music & Place

Music & Place

16 projects. Showing results 1 through 16.

Collage of jazz memorabilia related to New Orleans

Bill Russell and the New Orleans Jazz Revival

Ray Smith, Musician and Writer, Mike Pointon, Musician and Writer
graphic design incorporating colours of the spectrum in vertical stripes

Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity

Britta Sweers, University of Bern, Sarah M. Ross, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Volume Editors)
covers shows, a painting called the Jazz Party by William Roberts from the mid-1920s, showing a group of around 18 people dancing energetically in a bar, to music from a gramophone.'

Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs

From the Pleasure Garden to the Discotheque

Bruce J. Lindsay, Music Journalist and Social Historian

Dragon Headz

Welshness, Identity, and the Hidden Histories of Hip Hop in Wales

Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Plymouth
Collage of memorabilia from music venues

From CBGB to the Roundhouse

Music Venues Through the Years

Tim Burrows, Music Journalist
photo of the George Lee Orchestra on stage

Kansas City Jazz

A Little Evil Will Do You Good

Con Chapman, Author and Journalist
stylized line drawing of the Liverpool Cityscape in background and a tape recorder up front

Scouse Pop

Paul Skillen, University of Chester
abstract painting suggesting musical notes, blue tones, Ice and water

Sounds Icelandic

Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Þorbjörg Daphe Hall, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Nicola Dibben, University of Sheffield, Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, Árni Magnússon Institute , Tony Mitchell, University of Technology, Sydney (Volume Editors)
photo depicting a road with the road marking of an arrow which splits in two pointing in opposite directions

Sounds Irish, Acts Global

Explaining the Success of Ireland's Popular Music Industry

Michael Mary Murphy, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin, Jim Rogers, Dublin City University
photo of two anonymous musicians setting up for a gig, dressed in gothic gear

Sounds Northern

Popular Music, Culture and Place in England’s North

Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire (Volume Editor)
Computer enhanced photo of interior of a dance club emphasizes shadows of dancers

The Northern Soul Scene

Sarah Raine, University College Dublin, Tim Wall, Birmingham City University, Nicola Watchman Smith, Teeside University (Volume Editors)
Digitally enhanced photo collage of the group in the style of Andy Warhol's famous portraits of Monroe etc

The Velvet Underground

Richard Witts, Edge Hill University, (Emeritus)
graphic showing a row of Baglama, a traditional Turkish stringed instrument

Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey

Context, Performance, Function

Liselotte Sels, AP University College Antwerp

Turntable Stories

Narratives, Memories and Histories from In-between the Grooves

Fraser Mann, York St. John University, Robert Edgar, York St. John University, Helen Pleasance, York St. John University (Volume Editors)
two photo portraits of Larner and Cox as older men

Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival

The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox

Bruce J. Lindsay, Music Journalist and Social Historian
photo of a scene from an indoor venue looking through a crowd to the stage

Venue Stories

Narratives, Memories, and Histories from Britain’s Independent Music Spaces

Fraser Mann, York St. John University, Robert Edgar, York St. John University, Helen Pleasance, York St. John University (Volume Editors)