Environs of Calcutta

Roberts, Emma

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“…Britain's adoption of Nashville as a cultural beacon presents an example of how 'the legacies, aura, and influences of distinct musical pasts translate in the cut and thrust of contemporary music scenes.' 23 It is also a clear example of how music -and the places deeply associated with particular genres of music -can serve as invisible, intangible cultural values and cultural capital.…”

Section: Nashville As Imagined Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reimagining Nashville: The Changing Place of Country

Stanton

Schofield

2021

The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice

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For as long as there has been country music, Nashville has been its spiritual if not actual home. This city of recording studios, rehearsal spaces, music shops and venues is one of a small number of cities associated with a specific music genre and the creative cultures and attention this inevitably attracts. But just as heritage is never fixed and always becoming, Nashville -and the perception of Nashvilleis changing, to the point where it may no longer have the primacy it once held. In a globalised music industry where not all country music is from Nashville, nor even the United States, new 'Nashvilles' emerge and grow, commensurate with actual or relative decline in the prominence of the original. This might be considered a heritage dilemma (heritage 'at risk', and a challenge to traditional views on authenticity), but equally the argument can be made for a new heritage replacing or augmenting the old. By considering the city's 'at risk' status, and assessing the fictional representation of a reimagined Nashville in the Scottish city of Glasgow in the 2018 film Wild Rose, we explore this dilemma, and its challenge to heritage convention.

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Section: Nashville As Imagined Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%