Paul Kingsbury - Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music

SOUNDSCAPES OF WELLBEING
IN POPULAR MUSIC

Series Editors

Allison Williams, Associate Professor, School of Geography and Earth

Sciences, McMaster University, Canada

Susan Elliott, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences,

McMaster University, Canada

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Edited by

GAVIN J. ANDREWS

PAUL KINGSBURY

and

ROBIN KEARNS

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 2014 Gavin J. Andrews, Paul Kingsbury, Robin Kearns, and contributors.

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Andrews, Gavin J., 1970

Soundscapes of wellbeing in popular music / by Gavin J. Andrews, Paul Kingsbury and
Robin A. Kearns.

pages cm.(Ashgates geographies of health series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-4359-9 (hardback: alk. paper)ISBN 978-1-4094-4360-5 (ebook)
ISBN 978-1-4094-7167-7 (epub)

1. Popular MusicSocial aspects. 2. Public healthSocial aspects. 3. Music therapy.
4. Cultural geography I. Kingsbury, Paul (Paul Thomas) II. Kearns, Robin A., 1959
III. Title.

ML3918.P67A835 2014

781.64159dc23

2013031532

ISBN 978-1-409-44359-9 (hbk)

Ben Cowell

Gavin J. Andrews is a Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University. As a health geographer his wide-ranging research interests include the dynamics between space / place and aging, holistic medicine, health care education, work, fitness, and popular cultures (including music). Much of his work is positional and considers the development and future of health geography. His publications include four books and numerous journal articles, editorials, chapters, and reports.

Paul Kingsbury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University. His research draws on the social theories of Jacques Lacan and Friedrich Nietzsche to examine the geographies of multiculturalism, consumption, power, and aesthetics. He is the author of numerous journal articles and the co-editor (with Steve Pile) of Psychoanalytic Geographies (2014).

Robin Kearns is a Professor of Geography in the School of Environment at The University of Auckland and has research interests spanning social, cultural and health geography. Robin has published numerous articles and two books (with Wilbert Gesler) on the links between culture, place and health. He is Associate Editor of three journals: Health & Place, Health and Social Care in the Community, and Journal of Transport and Health. Robins pubic appointments have included the board of the Centre for Housing Research and membership of the Public Health Advisory Committee. In addition to exploring soundscapes, Robins current research projects include investigating childrens experience of higher density urban living and the re-use of former psychiatric asylums

Adam Krims specialized in Marxism, urban geography, and recent music history. He also published on critical theory, cultural theory, and African-American musics, including hip hop. He authored Music and Urban Geography (2007), as well as Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (2000). He contributed to Music Analysis, Nineteenth-Century Music, and numerous other journals and essay collections. Krims recent publications addressed issues that cut across music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology, focusing on urban change and music in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century. Among the topics addressed in his work are Historically-Informed Performance (HIP), music videos and film music. Adam Krims passed away in 2012.