Gavin J. Andrews

Paul Kingsbury

Robin Kearns

Unearthing the messy and sprawling interrelationships of place, wellbeing, and popular music, this book explores musical soundscapes of health, ranging from activism to international charity, to therapeutic treatments and how wellbeing is sought and attained in contexts of music. Drawing on critical social theories of the production, circulation, and consumption of popular music, the book gathers together diverse insights from geographers and musicologists. Popular music has become increasingly embedded in complex and often contradictory discourses of wellbeing. For instance, some new genres and sub-cultures of popular music are associated with violence, drug-use, and the angst of living, yet simultaneously define the hopes and dreams of millions of young people. At a service level, popular music is increasingly used as a therapeutic modality in holistic medicine, as well as in conventional health care and public health practice. The genre of popular music, then, is fundamental to human wellbeing as an active and central part of people’s emotional lives. By conceptually and empirically foregrounding place, this book demonstrates how - music whether from particular places, about particular places, or played in particular places ” is a crucial component of health and wellbeing.

Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Patsy Cline: Crazy for Loving You, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, opening August 2012."

Crazy for Loving You

Patsy Cline

Jim Sherrarden

Elek Horvath

"For more than a century, Nashville's Hatch Show Print has produced show-posters for entertainers of all stripes, from country musicians to magicians, professional wrestlers to rock stars. Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop is the fully illustrated tour of this iconic institution, offering a glimpse into the history of American entertainment through dynamic and distinctive posters from the 1800s to today." "In this day of new media dominance, the hand-carved, hand-set, hand-inked, and hand-cranked ethic and aesthetic of a Hatch Show Print poster is beyond compare. Complete with over 175 illustrations, including historical photographs and scores of beautiful posters, Hatch Show Print is a dazzling document of this legendary print shop." --Book Jacket.

The History of a Great American Poster Shop

Hatch Show Print

Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989

Vinyl Hayride

Mike Evans

Woodstock defined a generation and exemplified an era. Relive that unique moment and go "back to the garden" with this day-by-day, act-by-act account of everything that went down on Yasgur's Farm. This lavish 50th-anniversary edition features interviews from those who were there, a wealth of photographs and memorabilia, and updates on Woodstock today. It's the ultimate celebration of a landmark moment.

Three Days That Rocked the World

Woodstock: 50th Anniversary Edition

Museum at Bethel Woods

Provides a day-by-day, act-by-act account of the landmark music festival, with details on the pre-festival organization and preparation, interviews and quotes from participants, and discussion of media coverage and the festival's legacy.

Three Days that Rocked the World

Woodstock

Unearthing the messy and sprawling interrelationships of place, wellbeing, and popular music, this book explores musical soundscapes of health, ranging from activism to international charity, to therapeutic treatments and how wellbeing is sought and attained in contexts of music. Drawing on critical social theories of the production, circulation, and consumption of popular music, the book gathers together diverse insights from geographers and musicologists. Popular music has become increasingly embedded in complex and often contradictory discourses of wellbeing. For instance, some new genres and sub-cultures of popular music are associated with violence, drug-use, and the angst of living, yet simultaneously define the hopes and dreams of millions of young people. At a service level, popular music is increasingly used as a therapeutic modality in holistic medicine, as well as in conventional health care and public health practice. The genre of popular music, then, is fundamental to human wellbeing as an active and central part of people¿s emotional lives. By conceptually and empirically foregrounding place, this book demonstrates how - music whether from particular places, about particular places, or played in particular places ¿ is a crucial component of health and wellbeing.

Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music. Edited by Gavin J. Andrews, Paul Kingsbury and Robin A. Kearns

Offers portraits and brief profiles of top country singers and musicians and surveys the history of country music

The Music and the Musicians

Country

Anna J. Secor

A Place More Void takes its name from a scene in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, wherein an elderly soothsayer has a final chance to warn Caesar about the Ides of March. Worried that he won’t be able to deliver his message because of the crowded alleyways, the soothsayer devises a plan to find and intercept Caesar in “a place more void.” It is precisely such an elusive place that this volume makes space for by theorizing and empirically exploring the many yet widely neglected ways in which the void permeates geographical thinking. This collection presents geography’s most in-depth and sustained engagements with the void to date, demonstrating the extent to which related themes such as gaps, cracks, lacks, and emptiness perforate geography’s fundamental concepts, practices, and passions. Arranged in four parts around the themes of Holes, Absences, Edges, and Voids, the contributions demonstrate the fecundity of the void for thinking across a wide range of phenomena: from archives to alien abductions, caves to cryptids, and vortexes to vanishing points. A Place More Void gathers established and emerging scholars who engage a wide range of geographical issues and who express themselves not only through archival, literary, and socio-scientific investigations, but also through social and spatial theory, political manifesto, poetry, and performance art.

Paul Kingsbury

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