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Cultural Precincts, Creative Spaces: Giving the Local a Musical Spin
Sarah Baker*
School of Arts (Gold Coast)
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: s.baker{at}griffith.edu.au.
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This article examines the role of three community-based music projects—in Newcastle (Australia), Thanet (United Kingdom), and the City of Playford (Australia)—in engendering notions of regionalism, locality, and identity. Through their involvement in these projects, young people are placed at the intersection of music program management, city mythologies, and national policy. Each of the three projects examined attempts to facilitate urban regeneration through supplying their target community with what one regional arts development officer has coined a "musical spin." However, within wider cultural frameworks, youth’s lived experience is often at odds with grander ideals of community arts space. Thus, although the discourses of "creative" urban regeneration articulated by the facilitators of community-based music projects may appear credible at the level of cultural policy, their practical implementation is problematized by competing local narratives that are grounded in established local knowledges and often highly resistant to intervention by outside sources.
First published on July 22, 2008, doi:10.1177/1206331208314615
Space and Culture 2009;12:148.
A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2009
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