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(2014) Researching and representing mobilities, Dordrecht, Springer.
The pan flute musicians at sergels torg
between global flows and specificities of place
Karolina Doughty , Maja Lagerqvist
pp. 150-169
Research on the relationship between music and place has highlighted the importance of music — in terms of both consumption and production — for how people experience, feel and perceive places as well as how they act in those places (e.g. Johansson and Bell, 2009). Connell and Gibson (2003: 192) state that "Music, through its actual sound, and through its ability to represent and inform the nature of space and place, is crucial to the ways in which humans occupy and engage with the material world." Simultaneously, scholars contributing to the so-called "mobilities turn" in the social sciences since the 1990s have argued for the understanding of social and cultural life as inherently mobile. However, the relationship between music and mobility has remained underexplored in both literatures on sound/music and the wide-ranging literatures on the experiential dimensions of mobilities. In this chapter we address this gap by exploring how live musical performances in an urban public space come to matter in a number of ways for local mobilities (both physical and imaginary), and the tensions that arise between global flows and local place-making. Given the theme of this anthology, we also aim for this chapter to contribute to a wider theorisation of the relationship between representational and non-representational dimensions of urban place-making, through a lens of musical mobilities.
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Doughty, K. , Lagerqvist, M. (2014)., The pan flute musicians at sergels torg: between global flows and specificities of place, in L. Murray & S. Upstone (eds.), Researching and representing mobilities, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 150-169.
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