The spatial value of live music: Performing, (re)developing and narrating urban spaces

Abstract

Highlights Provides a conceptualisation of the spatial value of live music. Spatial value concerns performing, (re)developing and narrating urban spaces. Examines the relationship between live music and the built environment. Challenges to achieving spatial value include gentrification and densification. Discusses how the spatial of value can be supported in urban policies.

Vom stadträumlichen Pionier zur Kulturstätte inmitten der Pandemie. Musikclubs als (sozial-)räumliche Akteure urbaner Musikökosysteme

“…2020 ; Assiter 2020 ). Im Fall der Livemusik kann dies grundsätzlich mit der temporären Auflösung ihres räumlichen Wertes als „relationship between live music and the built environment, as constituted by the dimensions of performing, (re)developing and narrating the urban space“ (Van der Hoeven und Hitters 2020 : 155), aber auch als plötzliches Verschwinden der physischen Präsenz von Musikszenen und -netzwerken im Stadtraum beschrieben werden.…”

“…die vonseiten der Politik bestehende Wertschätzung von Clubräumen haben sich somit nicht nur – trotz oder gerade – in einer Zeit des fast vollständigen Fehlens von Konzerten und Clubveranstaltungen intensiviert. Zusätzlich wurde über die Kulturpolitik hinaus für eine grundlegende Statuserhöhung von Clubräumen in einem für die Livemusik bedeutenden Ressort gesorgt – der Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung (Van der Hoeven und Hitters 2020 , S. 160).…”

How concert promoters think: five approaches to concert promotion in Norway

“…Brennan and Webster, along with other scholars at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, have made several important contributions to the work on concert promoters, particularly in the UK, and also on the worldviews of these actors (Cloonan 2012). In recent years, several studies on concerts and concert promoters have been conducted globally (Carah et al 2020; Holt 2010, 2020; Kleppe et al 2019; van der Hoeven and Hitters 2019, 2020).…”

Curating the music city: The accommodation sector in Glasgow’s music tourism ecology

“…Furthermore, if one considers the overlap between music industry and hospitality industry in social, economic (they are mutually supportive) and infrastructural (they share spaces, and licencing concerns) dimensions, then a ‘music tourism’ ecology can be viewed as a key element of both of these constituent elements of urban cultural and economic space and relevant to the broader, interdisciplinary study of urban spaces, particularly given the ways in which both music and tourism are imbricated into urban policymaking and development. As van der Hoeven and Hitters (2020: 157) note ‘[u]rban regeneration has thus provided an important rationale for investing in a thriving live music ecology, as it supports urban branding, tourism and gentrification’. Hotels, then, are key nodes in this ecology relevant to, and bridging, the music sector and the outward facing urban and tourism strategies.…”