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Book SynopsisThe book is a comparative study of popular music cultures in 1980s Torino, Tampere, Manchester and Düsseldorf and their relation to the industrial city as imaginary, as heritage and as everyday reality.
Popular music genres, such as hardcore punk, house, industrial, post-punk and heavy metal, share a common origin in 1980s decaying industrial cities. All these genres have been canonized and understood as “scores” for grey, gloomy, decaying urban industrial environments or for their evocation, but is there an organic relationship between de-industrialization and this kind of music production?
Trade ReviewA must-read for everyone who seeks to understand the relationship between place and sound beyond a mere cause and effect-analogy. A multi-layered interdisciplinary study which unravels the articulation of industrial musicscapes and deindustrialization in a comparative perspective looking at four European cities: Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere. Well-researched and well-written: a superb ethnography and historiography of urban culture and popular music. -- Rolf Lindner, Professor Emeritus of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / Introduction: Metal on Metal / 1: The Industrial City / 2: A Genealogy of ‘Industrial City Music’/ 3: Manchester / 4: Düsseldorf / 5: Torino / 6: Tampere / 7: Industrial Heritages / 8: From Vanishing Mediator to Cultural Catalyst: Music, Space and Place / Conclusions / Bibliography
