TY - CHAP
T1 - The Values of Live Music in Urban Development
T2 - The Case of Rotterdam
AU - van der Hoeven, Arno
AU - Hitters, Erik
N1 - © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
PY - 2023/8/4
Y1 - 2023/8/4
N2 - This chapter examines the values of live music in urban development. It builds on growing attention in research and policymaking to the role of live music in processes of urban change. We use the city of Rotterdam as a case study. Rotterdam is the second city of the Netherlands, known as a super-diverse port city with a long tradition of using cultural events to achieve various economic, social, and spatial objectives. The analysis of this case results in three theoretical contributions to the existing literature on the role of live music in urban planning. First, we discuss four different values of live music (i.e., economic, cultural, social, and spatial), which allow us to analyze the impact live music can have on cities. Second, we demonstrate the role of local specificities in how the values are achieved, as there is a level of path dependency in local policymaking and cultural production. Third, we highlight how these local dynamics need to be understood in connection to national and international developments. Policies aimed at furthering live music for urban development are embedded in national and international contexts of actors, policies, markets, and the transformation thereof.
AB - This chapter examines the values of live music in urban development. It builds on growing attention in research and policymaking to the role of live music in processes of urban change. We use the city of Rotterdam as a case study. Rotterdam is the second city of the Netherlands, known as a super-diverse port city with a long tradition of using cultural events to achieve various economic, social, and spatial objectives. The analysis of this case results in three theoretical contributions to the existing literature on the role of live music in urban planning. First, we discuss four different values of live music (i.e., economic, cultural, social, and spatial), which allow us to analyze the impact live music can have on cities. Second, we demonstrate the role of local specificities in how the values are achieved, as there is a level of path dependency in local policymaking and cultural production. Third, we highlight how these local dynamics need to be understood in connection to national and international developments. Policies aimed at furthering live music for urban development are embedded in national and international contexts of actors, policies, markets, and the transformation thereof.
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-0757-1_2
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-0757-1_2
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-981-99-0756-4
T3 - Geographies of Media (GOM)
SP - 15
EP - 38
BT - New Geographies of Music 1
A2 - , Ola Johansson, Séverin Guillard, Joseph Palis
ER -