New Geographies of Music 2: Music in Urban Tourism, Heritage Policies and Place-making starts by exploring contemporary approaches to the study of popular music, as well as the relations existing between music, tourism, heritage and urban geography.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Approaching the spatiality of popular music through geographical and interdisciplinary perspectives.- Chapter 2.Music in surf town typology: Alternative spaces of a subculture.- Chapter 3. Street Piano: An Instrument of Urban Change.- Chapter 4.Tango music: between heritage and transnational resources. The geographies of tango in or from Buenos Aires..- Chapter 5.Taking music to the (museum) masses: Museum engagement with the country and grunge music heritages of Nashville and Seattle.- Chapter 6. The hidden music city: the role of music tourism imaginaries in the regeneration of Detroit.

This book is the second installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music. Music has generated substantial interest among geographers, but other academic disciplines have also developed related spatial perspectives on music. This trilogy brings together multiple approaches, each book investigating a bundle of interrelated themes. New Geographies of Music 2: Music in Urban Tourism, Heritage Policies and Place-making starts by exploring contemporary approaches to the study of popular music, as well as the relations existing between music, tourism, heritage and urban geography. The chapters address a range of issues, including how music shapes the “feel” of touristic towns and urban public spaces, how music scenes have an increasing role in heritage and tourism policies, and how this recognition of music has consequences on artistic practices and urban imaginaries. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between space and music.Séverin Guillard is an Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France and a member of the research unit Habiter le Monde (Inhabiting the World). His research focuses on music, cultural policies and events in French, American, and British cities. Ola Johansson is a Professor of Geography at the University of Pittsburgh in Johnstown. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. Johansson is the author of the book Songs from Sweden (2020, Palgrave Macmillan), and co-author of Sound, Society, and the Geography of Popular Music and World Regional Geography. Joseph Palis is an Associate Professor and Chairperson at the Department of Geography, University of the Philippines-Diliman. He has been a DJ at WXYC-Chapel Hill since 2006. 

Offers an engaging overview of current discussions on urban music tourism & heritage politics Features engaging global case studies and interdisciplinary analyses by global experts Spans the fields of urban and cultural geography, urban policy, heritage studies, music and media studies