Music City Melbourne

Shane Homan is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Monash University, Australia. He is the editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy (2022). Seamus O’Hanlon is Associate Professor of History at Monash University, Australia. He has published five books, including City Life: The New Urban Australia (2018).Catherine Strong is Associate Professor in the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. Among her publications are Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry: Education, Practice and Strategies for Change (co-editor, Bloomsbury 2019) and Death and the Rock Star (co-editor, 2015).John Tebbutt is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia.

• List of ContributorsList of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. The Transformed City 3. The Live Music City4. The Media City5. The Recording City6. The Legendary City7. The Divided City8. The Branded City9. ConclusionEndnotesReferencesIndex

Music City Melbourne is one of the best books I’ve read in the growing field of urban music studies. More than just a celebration of Melbourne’s well-known musical effervescence, Music City Melbourne offers meticulously-researched analyses of the role of public policy, media, social divisions, entrepreneurship and urban planning in the city’s rich history of music-making. Written by leading experts in their fields, the book is academically rigorous and a pleasure to read.