Metropolitics

Citadels, Cores, and Confetti: Urban Festivals in the New Political Economy of the Music Industry

Johan Jansson — 2017-01-05T20:07:54Z

How have changes in the music industry—especially regarding the way music is produced and consumed today—affected urban spaces and the production of the city more generally? In his review of Jonathan Wynn's Music/City, Johan Jansson examines the wider urban context surrounding music and the city, and in particular the impact on local communities of the ever-growing number of music festivals taking place in and around urban areas.
In recent years, the music industry has undergone thorough

- Reviews / public space, placemaking, culture, United States, Austin, arts, music, festivals, cultural policy, production of the city, Nashville, Newport (Rhode Island), festivalization

The Other Side of Austin, Texas

Caitlyn Collins & Katherine Jensen & Kristine Kilanski & Javier Auyero — 2015-03-02T05:50:00Z

Despite a booming economy, Austin, Texas, is a city where inequalities persist and grow in the shadow of neoliberal governance. Ethnographer Javier Auyero and his students give us a preview of the book Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City, where they explore the rough and varied lives of the contemporary urban poor.
Working on the dark side
“There's a joke: What's the difference between a cocktail waitress and a stripper? Two weeks.” Raven laughs loudly. “I literally went

- From the Field / inequalities, United States, work, exclusion, ethnography, poverty, neoliberalization, insecurity, Austin, homelessness, precarity, marginality, neoliberalism, urban poor