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Chairs(s):

Arun Saldanha, Department of Geography, Environment, and Society, University of Minnesota

; Rashad Shabazz, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University

Description:

Though geographers have been doing research on music for decades, there has
recently been a flourishing of new perspectives emerging between cultural
geography, popular music studies, and sound studies. This series of panels
builds on the momentum at previous AAG meetings to create community and
exchange. “Space and place” are more than just the “where” of music’s
production and consumption. When we listen to music, broadcasts, or other
organized sounds we’re hearing how history, migration, power, industry,
race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, climate, language, and a host of
other social, environmental, and cultural factors give rise to a particular
kind of sound. No musician or listener lives outside these forces, and the
experiences of music and sound in turn help shape these contexts. Music is
spatialized, and this collection of panels brings that idea into focus.

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