10/10/2017
by R. Kuchar
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Music Cities Convention is the largest and most extensive gathering on Music Cities. The conference brings together leaders from governments, cities and regions, academics, organisations and the music scene to discuss, debade and introduce new thinking. On October 26th 2017, … Continue reading
21/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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The role that dance halls, cabarets and variety theatres, and cultural imports like the cakewalk, tango and jazz played in the rise of a pan-European and global commercial popular culture, has been addressed either from the perspective of a single … Continue reading
14/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Music Cities Events is proud to present Music Tourism Convention. The world’s most extensive conference bringing together the music and tourism sectors to explore how music impacts, benefits and improves tourism offers, from festivals to heritage, music trails to food and … Continue reading
03/08/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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In addition to numerous other similarities, the Mediterranean cities Marseille and Naples offer very lively music scenes with significant parallels (and, of course, differences). Examples of comparable phenomena point to typical forms of popular song (“canzone napoletana”/”chansons deMarseille”), the close … Continue reading
12/07/2017
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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There are, in Kingston old quarters, a geography of dereliction, social discomfort and crime that rank this city in the top thirty in the world with respect to murder. However, this city is also a global cultural icon, the birthplace … Continue reading
03/04/2017
by R. Kuchar
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From the physical spaces in which music activity takes place, to the mythologizing of city-specific music scenes, the city has long played a vital role in the development and sustaining of music scenes. In recent years there has been a … Continue reading
28/03/2017
by R. Kuchar
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Not only Music and City, but also relevant in this context: The Department of History, Sociology and Criminology, in conjunction with the Tourism and Events Research Group at the University of Westminster, are seeking papers for a two-day symposium on … Continue reading
10/03/2017
by R. Kuchar
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First Music Cities Hackathon For the first time in Berlin, Sound Diplomacy hosts a Music Cities Hackathon in collaboration with the Technology Foundation Berlin and Spielfeld Digital Hub. The Music Cities Hackathon offers a space for experts, entrepreneurs & students … Continue reading
10/03/2017
by R. Kuchar
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Music City Convention goes Berlin Music Cities Convention is the largest and most extensive gathering on Music Cities. The conference brings together leaders from governments, cities and regions, academics, organisations and the music scene to discuss, debate and introduce new … Continue reading
15/12/2016
by R. Kuchar
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Call for papers It is almost twenty years since the publication of the landmark text ‘The Place of Music’ (Leyshon et al. 1998) put the complex relationships between music and place firmly on the research agenda. In those twenty years, … Continue reading