The 21st Century has seen the emergence and subsequent crisis of the Creative City
paradigm in which the broad scope of culture and heritage for urban branding has been …

In recent years, leading music artists have been performing significantly fewer shows, in part
due to growing concerns for their wellbeing, but also because of rising energy cost …

This paper studies the evolution of the punk and goth subcultures in Brisbane, Australia. We
analyse how these subcultures are representing the idea of the counter-city through the …

This paper examines the effects of policy responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic on
Brisbane's music industries. The methods used for data collection combined a review of …

In this article, we examine public subsidies for musiques actuelles (popular music) in French-
speaking Switzerland. Drawing on mixed-methods research focusing on the 2017–2019 …

In recent years, music cities around the world have developed various supportive policy
frameworks ensuring live music is accessible to large populations. The question of whether …

Popular music and its heritage increasingly feature as a component of creative city
strategies and urban regeneration agendas. However, local governments of small cities face …

Icebreaker questions are a fraught business. They can either open up a conversation with a
potential friend or alienate an entire room. Asking the right one is a delicate task, and a …

This paper considers the theoretical and practical basis by which the City of Toronto moved
to subsidize live music venues through property tax policy. Centrally, Toronto's Creative and …

A menudo nos preocupan los ruidos que nos molestan o nos mantienen despiertos por la
noche. Y con razón. El ruido es reconocido como la segunda mayor amenaza ambiental …