Community Well-Being, Post-Industrial Music Cities and the Turn to Popular Music Heritage

Sarah Baker; Raphael Nowak; Paul Long; Jez Collins; Zelmarie Cantillon

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35872-3_3

Community Well-Being, Post-Industrial Music Cities and the Turn to Popular Music Heritage

Sarah Baker, Raphael Nowak, Paul Long, Jez Collins, Zelmarie Cantillon

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This chapter questions how a turn to popular music heritage can be an important strategy for reinstating a sense of well-being for disenfranchised communities in post-industrial music cities. Focusing primarily on the case study of Birmingham (UK), we analyse popular music heritage initiatives deployed by the Birmingham Music Archive and reflect on the benefits of heritage to the local community beyond the rhetoric of local councils in pursuit of economic advantage. By exploring how well-being can be enhanced through community participation in local popular music heritage initiatives, we suggest that the ‘music city’ concept can be enriched by incorporating the actual effects of a turn to music in the rebranding of a city and how this is experienced by the local community. This chapter also highlights how the heritage sector, and in particular the community heritage sector, can make significant contributions to the making of the music city in ways that benefit local communities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Music Cities
Subtitle of host publication	Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept
Editors	Christina Ballico, Alan Watson
Place of Publication	Cham Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	3
Pages	43-61
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030358723
ISBN (Print)	9783030358716
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35872-3_3
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	New Directions in Cultural Policy Research
Publisher	Palgrave

Keywords

Popular Music
Music heritage
Community Wellbeing
Urban regeneration
music policy

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Baker, S., Nowak, R., Long, P., Collins, J., & Cantillon, Z. (2020). Community Well-Being, Post-Industrial Music Cities and the Turn to Popular Music Heritage. In C. Ballico, & A. Watson (Eds.), Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept (pp. 43-61). (New Directions in Cultural Policy Research). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35872-3_3

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Baker, S, Nowak, R, Long, P, Collins, J & Cantillon, Z 2020, Community Well-Being, Post-Industrial Music Cities and the Turn to Popular Music Heritage. in C Ballico & A Watson (eds), Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept. New Directions in Cultural Policy Research, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham Switzerland, pp. 43-61. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35872-3_3

Community Well-Being, Post-Industrial Music Cities and the Turn to Popular Music Heritage. / Baker, Sarah; Nowak, Raphael; Long, Paul et al.
Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept. ed. / Christina Ballico; Alan Watson. Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 43-61 (New Directions in Cultural Policy Research).

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