Sounds and the City

Brett Lashua is Reader in Leisure and Culture, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Stephen Wagg is Professor of Sport and Society, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Karl Spracklen is Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture, Leeds Beckett University, UK. M. Selim Yavuz is ​​​a PhD student in the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

• 1. Continuing the Conversations: Introducing Volume Two of Sounds and the City; Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, Karl Spracklen, M. Selim Yavuz. - Part 1: Cities of Origin?.  2. Re-Calling Grunge: Seattle, Anniversary Journalism and Changing Narratives of a Genre; Catherine Strong. - 3. Detroit: Techno City; Hillegonda C. Rietveld and Alessio Kolioulis. - 4. Placing the Music: Kingston, Reggae Music and the Rise of Popular Culture; Kevon Rhiney and Romain Cruse . - 5. Cleveland: "Where Rock Began to Roll"?; Brett Lashua. - Part 2: Global Cities?. - 6. From Rio to São Paulo: Shifting Urban Landscapes and Global Strategies for Brazilian Music; Kariann E. Goldschmitt. - 7. Placed: Dis/Placed - The Journeys of Jazz across Johannesburg; Gwen Ansell. - 8. Beijing is Rock, Shanghai is Jazz: Musical Identity Formations and Shifts in the Big City Soundscapes of China; Andrew David Field. - 9. Elusively Ubiquitous: Issues with the Applications of Hybridity in Visual Kei; Mira Malick. - 10. The Bayous of Borrowash: Cajun Music in Derby, England, in the Late Twentieth Century; Stephen Wagg. - 11. The Spaces of Early Rock and Roll in Hamburg-St Pauli; Julia Sneeringer. - 12. “Piano is My Homeland”: Subverting Violence Through Musical Resistance in Yarmouk Refugee Camp; S. Ali Mostolizadeh. - 13. Bollywood and the Life of Music in Twenty-First Century Mumbai; Gregory D. Booth. - Part 3: Legacies and Heritage?. - 14. Folk Music and Political Activism in Greenwich Village and at the Newport Folk Festival, 1935 – 1965; Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen. - 15. Madchester; Katie Milestone. - 16. In Hot Water: Cultural and Musical Conflict in The American Spa; Robert W. Fry. - 17. Provincial Towns and Yorkshire Cities: Post-Punk Sounds, Suburban Escape and Metro-Hegemony; Rio Goldhammer. - 18. Did Wigan have a Northern Soul?; Stephen Catterall and Keith Gildart. - 19. Austin and Americana Music: Sites of Protest, Progress and Millennial Cool; Dave Robinson. - 20. Afterword: Sounds and the City; Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, Karl Spracklen, and M. Selim Yavuz

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