Sound, Society And The Geography Of Popular Music

Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music Edited by Ola Johansson and Thomas L. Bell Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music This page has been left blank intentionally Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music Edited by Ola Johansson University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA Thomas L. Bell University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA and Western Kentucky University, USA © Ola Johansson and Thomas L. Bell 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Ola Johansson and Thomas L. Bell have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Sound, society and the geography of popular music. 1. Music and geography. 2. Popular music--Social aspects. 3. Popular music--Psychological aspects. 4. Music and tourism. I. Johansson, Ola. II. Bell, Thomas. 306.4'842-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sound, society and the geography of popular music / [edited] by Ola Johansson and Thomas L. Bell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-7577-8 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9875-3 (ebook) 1. Popular music--Social aspects. 2. Music and geography. I. Johansson, Ola. II. Bell, Thomas L.  ML3918.P67S68 2009 781.6409--dc22 2009024263 ISBN 9780754675778 (hbk) ISBN 9780754698753 (ebk) V Contents List of Figures   List of Tables   Notes on Contributors   1 Introduction   Ola Johansson and Thomas L. Bell vii ix xi 1 Part I  Music, Space, and Political Activism    2 3 Geographies of John and Yoko’s 1969 Campaign for Peace: An Intersection of Celebrity, Space, Art, and Activism   Robert J. Kruse II 11 Scales of Resistance: Billy Bragg and the Creation of Activist Spaces   Edward Jackiewicz and James Craine 33 Part II  Tourism and Landscapes of Music    4 Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in Pilgrimage Landscapes   Derek H. Alderman 5 Ambient Australia: Music, Meditation, and Tourist Places   John Connell and Chris Gibson 53 67 Part III  Mapping Musical Texts    6 A Lesson of Geography, on the Riddim: The Symbolic Topography of Reggae Music   Sarah Daynes 7 A Listener’s Mental Map of California   Kevin Romig 91 107 Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music vi Part IV  Place in Music/Music in Place    8 Musical Cartographies: Los Ritmos de los Barrios de la Habana   127 John Finn and Chris Lukinbeal 9 The City She Loves Me: The Los Angeles of the Red Hot Chili Peppers   Michael W. Pesses 10 The Geography of “Canadian Shield Rock”: Locality, Nationality and Place Imagery in the Music of