Music City Studies through 2021
How have we built our Music Cities and Communities for Possible Futures?
Many cities have stepped into new organizing models for local change as “Music Cities” and with “Night Mayors” — with all sorts of new and creative structures. Some have worked well; others have had challenges. What helped build resilience for the current live economy crisis across the world and in local communities?
The session will prompt the audience to think about their own work and communities with examples of how venues and organizations are programming, co-creating, organizing, and educating artists for a great, healthy local music scene.
A wonderful recent study has been published by Andreina Seijas from Harvard on the night mayor movement published in Urban Studies (subscription required):
Governing the night-time city: The rise of night mayors as a new form of urban governance after dark
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098019895224
It is the source of this chart below of Night Mayors and Night-time Advocacy Organizations:
Night Mayors and Related Roles
Frictions, Gaps, Power, and Communities
Many cities and communities have done “music city studies” – take a look at the map above and studies linked below it
What parts of these studies can you see in your own communities?
Frictions
New Combinations
Emergent Structures and Support
Related Reading
Enjoy the breadth of music cities, ecosystems, and architecture writings.
The Music Cities Method
Sound Diplomacy
Rise of the Creative Class - Revisited
Richard Florida
Rise of the Creative Class
2012 – 10 Year Revisted
The Mastering of a Music City
IFPI and Music Canada
Get Involved
Get connected with your own local community — how can you help bridge the gaps and move past friction of change?
