{"product_id":"deindustrialisation-and-popular-music-punk-and-post-punk-in-manchester-dusseldorf-torino-and-tampere-9781786607379","title":"Deindustrialisation and Popular Music: Punk and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopular 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \/ 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","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042463809879,"sku":"9781786607379","price":103.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786607379.jpg?v=1750954248","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deindustrialisation-and-popular-music-punk-and-post-punk-in-manchester-dusseldorf-torino-and-tampere-9781786607379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}