Beswick, Katie and Johnson, Javon. 2021. Sounds of the City: Dramaturgy, Space, Identity. Critical Stages/Scènes critiques(24), ISSN 2409-7411 [Article]

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This article offers a response to the question, “How can we think about cities within the frame of a dramaturgy of sound?” Drawing on our scholarly interest in cities, we, the authors, consider how city meanings are produced and transmitted through music cultures. We tentatively explored this question previously, in a “Salon” discussion, recorded and available as part of the Aural/Oral Dramaturgies project, curated by the editors of this special issue at the website www.auralia.space. We recommend you listen to that discussion, here, before reading this article. Here, we reflect further on the relationship between sound and cities, offering a mixtape of tracks and parsing our personal experiences in relation to them to make sense of the ways music has shaped cities in our experience. The reflections below blend personal and critical perspectives to offer city stories, and stories of ourselves in the city. We have drawn upon notions of urban dramaturgy (Donehower; Ferdman) to find a style of writing which, “plays with the structure rhythm and flow of the city” in order to begin untangling questions of “what our cities are and for whom” (Dramaturgs’ Network, 2015).

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Urban dramaturgy, space, place, cities, music cultures, aural dramaturgy
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
Dates:	Date Event 1 March 2021 Accepted 14 December 2021 Published Online December 2021 Published
Item ID:	34301
Date Deposited:	06 Nov 2023 11:50
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 11:52
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34301

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