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Author:   Shane Homan (Monash University, Australia) ,  Catherine Strong (RMIT University, Australia) ,  Seamus O'Hanlon ,  John Tebbutt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032291338

ISBN 10:   1032291338
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Interrogating the Music City Shane Homan, Catherine Strong, Seamus O’Hanlon and John Tebbutt Part I Conceptualising the Music City 2. Locating the City Limits: Examining Overlapping and Competing Policy Concerns in the Management and Promotion of ‘Music Cities’ Adam Behr 3. The Night Mayor at Work Shane Homan Part II Intersections of Music and Nationalism in the City 4. Beijing Hip Hop: From Banal Cosmopolitanism to Nationalism in the Synchronisation with the West Anthony Fung and Qian Zhang 5. The Birth, Death, and Revitalisation of Chinese Popular Music in Shanghai Mengyu Luo and Wenyu Zhong 6. Other Melodies in a Modern City: The Thai Regime of Sound and Literary Imagination of Ghostly Thai Classical Music in Bangkok Wanchana Tongkhampao Part III Movements and Music in the City 7. The Voice of the City: Hong Kong Cantopop in the Future Continuous Tense? Yiu-Wai Chu 8. Decolonial identities and DIY Music as Political and Social Resistance in the Global South Paula Guerra 9. Beyond ‘Pub Rock’: Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Changing Face of Melbourne’s Live Music Scene Jennifer Rose and Seamus O’Hanlon Part IV Heritage and Music Cities 10. Missing the Beat: The Role of Intangible Heritage for Western Urban Policy Beate Peter 11. “Before They Come and Pull the Place Apart”: Venue Loss and Heritage Value in Melbourne’s Music Scenes Catherine Strong and Sam Whiting 12. Ground-Truthing DC Punk History in Adams–Morgan Tyler Sonnichsen 13. Screening Teenagers: Modernity and Music Television in 1960s Melbourne John Tebbutt

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Shane Homan is Head of the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Melbourne. He has published five books and many book chapters and journal articles on cultural policy, particularly intersections between the music industries and national cultural policy. Catherine Strong is an Associate Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include cultural heritage and history, and gender issues in popular music. She is the co-editor of the journal Popular Music History. Seamus O’Hanlon teaches contemporary urban, social and cultural history at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His most recent publications include City Life: the New Urban Australia and Music City Melbourne: Urban Culture, History and Policy co-authored with Shane Homan, Catherine Strong and John Tebbutt. John Tebbutt has a PhD in History (University of Sydney). John is Associate Professor (Honorary), School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, and at the Faculty of Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. He is managing editor with Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.

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