This Must Be the Place

Name: This Must Be the Place
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SKU: 9781915672056
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How Music Can Make Your City Better

By Shain Shapiro

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This Must Be the Place explores the transformative power of music on cities across the globe. Rather than focusing on how cities influence music, Shain Shapiro highlights how music shapes urban development, governance, and community life. Drawing on personal stories from cities like London, Melbourne, Nashville, Austin, and Zurich, the book offers a global perspective on music’s vital yet often overlooked role in public policy and everyday life. It advocates for the role of artists and musicians in post-pandemic urban renewal and provides a practical guide for music lovers, activists, and city leaders to reinvent their communities through music.
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This book is ideal for music lovers, urban planners, artists, activists, and anyone interested in the intersection of culture and city life. Its accessible style also makes it suitable for general readers curious about how music can enhance community wellbeing and urban environments worldwide.

This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better.

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This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better.

This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music's relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed.

Told in an accessible way through personal stories from cities around the world — including London, Melbourne, Nashville, Austin and Zurich — This Must Be the Place takes a truly global perspective on the ways music is integral to everyday life but neglected in public policy.

Arguing for the transformative role of artists and musicians in a post-pandemic world, This Must Be the Place not only examines the powerful impact music can have on our cities, but also serves as a how-to guide and toolkit for music-lovers, artists and activists everywhere to begin the process of reinventing the communities they live in.

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Shapiro is praised as an informed and capable voice on the synergy between music and thriving communities. Reviewers note the book’s balance of research and practical insight, calling it a much-anticipated resource that offers a playbook for using music to build stronger, more vibrant, and inclusive neighbourhoods. It is described as essential reading for musicians, city leaders, and citizens who wish to harness music’s positive social impact and deepen their appreciation for its role in transforming physical spaces.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781915672056

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 September 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Repeater Books

Edition: New edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 214

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Penguin Books Shain Shapiro

About the Author

Shain Shapiro is the global leader in understanding how music and cities intersect. He founded Sound Diplomacy, the global leading economic consultancy working with cities on music, cultural and entertainment policy. He also leads the nonprofit Center for Music Ecosystems, which commissions research to help solve local, national and international challenges using music as a tool. This is his first book.