File Under: American Spaces

(In America- of the 1920s and 1930s, for example, it took 50,000 watts of radio power and an entire telephone system to throw a single National Barn Dance.)60 Space versus place The notion that place (the physical environment though which we move) and space (the practice and lived experience of plac...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of the American Musicological Society 2011-10, Vol.64 (3), p.708
Main Author: Fink, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Hip hop culture
Musical performances
Musicology
Postmodernism
Radio
Scholars
Social activism
Space
Telephones
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:(In America- of the 1920s and 1930s, for example, it took 50,000 watts of radio power and an entire telephone system to throw a single National Barn Dance.)60 Space versus place The notion that place (the physical environment though which we move) and space (the practice and lived experience of place) should be primary constituents in a musicology of the Americas is hardly one for which I can take credit; the seminal meoretical work of Adam Krims, model analyses of hip-hop by Tricia Rose and Murray Forman, and an increasing body of paradigmshifting work from younger scholars provide abundant evidence of that.61 It might be somewhat more original to note that a focus on - and a clear distinction between- space and place can help clarify at least one nagging issue that still troubles many scholars of North American musics: how can we explore our intuitive sense that music as made and consumed in this hemisphere is different from the classical traditions of Europe and Asia, and not faU into the manifold historiographie traps often lumped together as "American exceptionalism"?
ISSN:0003-0139
1547-3848