Abstract
Between 2007 and 2009 I directed a two-year project on music-making that involved a case study on Liverpool, a partnership with National Museums Liverpool and English Heritage,1 and ethnographic and archival research with a research associate, Brett Lashua, to explore how musicians involved with rock, pop and hip hop music interacted with material urban environments. We were interested in the places in which those musicians played or performed, their journeys to and from those places, and how they experienced, thought about and reflected on such places in a context of urban change. We were also interested in places imagined through music composition, and how such places were represented not just through lyrics but through accompanying musical sounds and visual images. The intention was to relate this research to topical debates about culture, creativity and urban regeneration, and in this respect Liverpool was a suitable choice as the research location because its status as European Capital of Culture 2008 had intensified local debates about such issues.
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Cohen, S. (2012). Urban Musicscapes: Mapping Music-making in Liverpool. In: Roberts, L. (eds) Mapping Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137025050_7
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