About the Series
Music and the City sets urban musical and sonic cultures within new global and cross-disciplinary perspectives.
The series aims to open up new ways of thinking about music in an urban context, embracing the widest diversity of music and sound in cities across the world. Breaking down boundaries between historical and contemporary, and between popular and high art, it seeks to illuminate the diverse urban environment in all its exhilarating and vivid complexity. The urban thus becomes a microcosm of a much messier, yet ultimately richer, conception of the ‘music of everyday life’.
Rigorously peer-reviewed and written by leading scholars in their fields, the short-format texts offer authoritative and challenging approaches towards a fast-developing area of music research. Elements in Music and the City presents extended case-studies within a comparative perspective, while developing pioneering new theoretical frameworks for an emerging field.
The series is inherently cross-disciplinary and global in its perspective, as reflected in the wide-ranging multi-national advisory board. It encourages a similar diversity of approaches, ranging from the historical and ethnomusicological to contemporary popular music and sound studies.
Elements in Music and the City will be of interest not only to researchers and students in music and related arts, but also to a broad range of readers intrigued by how we might understand music and sound in its social, cultural and political contexts.
Cambridge Elements are between 20,000 and 30,000 words in length and are published online, as well as print-on-demand in paperback. The digital first format provides enhanced user experience and easy access to online resources, not only to illuminate these themes but also to inspire further exploration and new interdisciplinary research.
