Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture : Beyond the Beatles.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Music and the City: Cultural Diversity in a Global Cosmopolis -- Musical Diversity and the Gateway to Empire -- Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Multiculturalism -- Urban Musical Landscapes and Places of Mixing and Exclusion -- American Connections and Local Sounds -- Music and the Production of the City -- Popular Music and Urban Social and Economic Change -- 2 Music as a City Sound: Rock Culture and the Poetics of Loss -- Rock Music in Liverpool -- Liverpool in Rock Music -- The Definitive Liverpool Sound -- Music, Lament and the Soul of the City -- Conclusion -- 3 Music as City Heritage: Decline and Renewal in the Nashville of the North -- Country Music in Liverpool -- Liverpool in Country Music -- Music and Alterity at the Heart of the City -- Conclusion -- 4 Music as a City Business: Trial, Tribulation and Place in a Labour of Love -- The Business of Music in Liverpool -- Liverpool in the Music Business -- Conclusion -- 5 Music as a City Industry: Haemorrhage, Debt and the Politics of Music Policy-Making -- Music Industry Policy-Making in Liverpool -- Liverpool in Music Industry Policy-Making -- Conclusion -- 6 Music and City Tourism: Respect, Betrayal and the Haunting of the Beatles -- Beatles Week 1996 -- Beatles Tourism in Liverpool: Development and Organization -- Liverpool in Beatles Tourism -- Tourism, the Beatles and a Musical Production of the City -- Conclusion -- 7 Music as a City Quarter: Brands, Noises and Regeneration -- Music and Regeneration in Liverpool -- Liverpool in Music and Culture-Led Regeneration -- Music Making a Noise -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Methodology and Approach -- Bibliography -- Index.

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