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Musical Spaces Musical Spaces Place, Performance, and Power edited by James Williams Samuel Horlor Published by Jenny Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd. Level 34, Centennial Tower 3 Temasek Avenue Singapore 039190 Email: [email protected] Web: www.jennystanford.com British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Musical Spaces: Place, Performance, and Power All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form Copyright © 2022 by Jenny Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd. or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. Cover image courtesy: Polly Barnes ISBN 978-981-4877-85-5 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-1-003-18041-8 (eBook) Contents Preface Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Musical Spaces xi xvii SPaamrtu Ie l Horlor (Trans)local Musical Spaces 1. Musical Spaces and Deep Regionalism in Minas Gerais, Brazil 5 Jonathon Grasse 2. ‘Trapped in Oklahoma’: Bible Belt Affect and DIY Punk 23 Alican Koc 3. Musical Pathways Through Algerian-London 41 Stephen Wilford 4. Dancing to the Hotline Bling in the Old Bazaars of Tehran 59 Shabnam Goli Regionality in Learning and Heritage 5. Performing Local Music: Engaging with Regional Musical Identities Through Higher Education and Research 85 Daithí Kearney 6. Preserving Cultural Identity: Learning Music and Performing Heritage in a Tibetan Refugee School 115 James Williams vi Contents 7. Claiming Back the Arctic: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Music as a Voice for the Indigenous Subaltern 139 Kiara Wickremasinghe Music and Spatial Imaginaries 8. ‘He Is a Piece of Granite…’: Landscape and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden 157 Anne Macgregor 9. War, Folklore, and Circumstance: Dimitri Shostakovich’s Greek Songs in Transnational Historical Context 173 Artemis Ignatidou 10. ‘O Monstrous! O Strange!’: Culture, Nature, and the Places of Music in the Mexican Sotavento 193 Diego Astorga de Ita 11. Journeys to Plastic Beach: Navigations Across the Virtual Ocean to Gorillaz’ Fictional Island 219 Alex Jeffery Part II Music-Making Environments 12. Person–Environment Relationships: Influences Beyond Acoustics in Musical Performance 245 James Edward Armstrong 13. The Social and Spatial Basis of Musical Joy: Folk Orc as Special Refuge and Everyday Ritual 261 Thomas Graves 14. Echoes of Mongolia’s Sensory Landscape in Shurankhai’s ‘Harmonized’ Urtyn Duu 279 Sunmin Yoon Contents vii Designing Creative Spaces 15. Staging Ariodante: Cultural Cartographies and Dialogical Performance 299 Benjamin Davis 16. Musicians in Place and Space: The Impact of a Spatialized Model of Improvised Music Performance 335 David Leahy 17. Space, Engagement, and Immersion: From La Monte Young and Terry Riley to Contemporary Practice 355 Joanne Mills Musical Spaces and Power 18. Micronational Spaces: Rethinking Politics in Contemporary Music Festivals 375 Jelena Gligorijević 19. Construction of Protest Space Through Chanting in the Egyptian Revolution (2011): Musical Dimensions of a Political Subject 401 Oscar Galeev 20. Bethlem, Music, and Sound as Biopower in Seventeenth-Century London 417 Joseph Nelson Epilogue: Towards More Geographic Musicologies 441 JIanmdeexs Williams 445 Preface This volume’s history extends back to a one-day conference held at Durham University, UK, in January 2017 with the title ‘Geography, Music, Space’. Co-organized by Samuel Horlor (Music), with Alice Cree and Sarah M. Hughes (both Geography), the event’s call for contributions attracted a small deluge of responses from scholars across the globe working in disciplines well beyond our own areas of experience. We soon realized that the intersection of music and space was a topic of far wider and deeper interest than we had originally imagined. Journal The event saw rich dialogue between scholars of music, of Music, Health, and Wellbeing Musicology geography, and various other disciplines, prompting the Research (JMHW) (previously ) to collate two issues of articles under the original conference title. These issues, which remain openly accessible, are the foundations for the chapters in this volume, precursors to many of the interweaving narratives on geography, music, and space found within the book. The revised and updated studies presented here deepen engagements with musical spaces, particularly as connected with issues of place, performance, and power. Enormous thanks are due to Alice and Sarah for their inspiration and energy in creating and realizing the original event and to the JMHW Institute of Musical Research and Durham University for funding it. We also owe much gratitude to the contributing authors of for their original manuscripts and to those who developed their work further for this book. Many thanks also go to the visual artist Polly Barnes for her cartographic line artwork upon which the book’s cover is based. She explains: The cover art for this volume evolved as part of an exploration of my social landscape and sense of self in relation to others. The locus of each contour and branch represents a creative, professional, or educational setting through which I have developed connections and relationships with others throughout my life.
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