Episode 2: There’s a Place - Liverpool and Municipalities’ Music Identities

Episode Summary

In this second of three episodes, we head to Liverpool, UK, a seaport city in northwestern England, to explore the importance of place when it comes to a city’s music identity. While we’re there we will also see how Liverpool has become a bonafide music city based on historical significance and as a part of the UNESCO Cities of Music Network.

Articles and Books Referenced in this Episode

• Another Typical Day in this Typical Town: place as inspiration for music creation and creative expression by Dr.Christina Ballico

• Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles by Sara Cohen

• ‘Liverpool gets by with a little help from the Beatles’ by Agence France-Presse (on South China Morning Post)

• Music Cities: Evaluating a global cultural policy concept co-edited by Dr.Christina Ballico and Allan Watson

• Musical memory, heritage and local identity: remembering the popular music past in a European Capital of Culture by Sara Cohen

• Music Scenes and Self Branding (Nashville and Austin) by Andrea Baker

• Soundtracks: Popular music, identity and place by John Connell and Chris Gibson

• The Mastering of a Music City: Key Elements, Effective Strategies and Why it’s Worth Pursuing by Music Canada and IFPI

• The Twenty-First-Century Legacy of the Beatles: Liverpool and Popular Music Heritage Tourism by Dr. Michael Brocken

• ‘Robert Plant on the Finest and Most Questionable Music of His Career’by Devon Ivie (on Vulture)

Other Relevant Links to this Episode

• Culture Liverpool

• Culture Liverpool: Modern Music City

• Liverpool Music City

• UNESCO Cities of Music

• UNESCO World Heritage List

Used Royalty-free music and sound effects

• Theme music: Party Rock! by Bosnow on Uppbeat

• Song 1: New York by Danger Lion X on Uppbeat

• Song 2: One For The Hawk by Doug Organ on Uppbeat

• Song 3: Slowtown by Doug Organ on Uppbeat

• Song 4: The Swindler by Night Drift on Uppbeat

• Song 5: Asiatic by Alexander Plam on Uppbeat

• Bright idea sound effect: Zapsplat

What genre do you consider to be the Liverpool sound? What’s your city’s distinctive sound? Let us know via either Twitter or Mastodon.