{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-22T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicurbanism\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2012-10-24T14:56:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:56:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Musical Urbanism<\/em>\u00a0offers a forum to think about three questions:<\/p>\n<p>1. How do cities sustain creative milieux and cultural movements?<\/p>\n<p>2. How are cities and the urban condition represented in art and popular culture?<\/p>\n<p>3. What\u2019s local (to a city, neighborhood, group) in any given art form or cultural movement?<\/p>\n<p>Popular music is as good an example as any other in which to pose these questions. It\u2019s better, in fact, since music provokes excitement, individual interpretations, and debate, all of which I encourage. I don\u2019t expect reaching definitive answers here, but only hypotheses, reflections, elaborations, tangents, and further questions. I also anticipate there will be posts about just music or just urban stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Musical Urbanism is inspired by a seminar I\u2019ve taught at Vassar College in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.vassar.edu\/lenevare\/2007\/urbs386\">2007<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.vassar.edu\/lenevare\/2008\/urbs386\/\">2008<\/a>, and most recently in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.vassar.edu\/lenevare\/2011\/urbs346\/\">2011<\/a>. Thanks to my brilliant co-teachers, Heesok Chang and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/hua-hsu\/\">Hua Hsu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image credits:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamtheloop\/2709358444\/\">Capitol Hill Block Party 2008<\/a>\u00a0by deejayres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cosmonautirussi\/2632797541\/\">Partytunnel<\/a>\u00a0by cosmonautirussi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rootskontrolla\/229018919\/\">notting hill carnival 2006<\/a>\u00a0by rootskontrolla.<\/p>\n<p>Reproduced and modified respectfully via Creative Commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical Urbanism\u00a0offers a forum to think about three questions: 1. How do cities sustain creative milieux and cultural movements? 2. How are cities and the urban condition represented in art and popular culture? 3. What\u2019s local (to a city, neighborhood, group) in any given art form or cultural movement? Popular music is as good an example as any other in which to pose these questions. It\u2019s better, in fact, since music provokes excitement, individual interpretations, and debate, all of which I encourage. I don\u2019t expect reaching definitive answers here, but only hypotheses, reflections, elaborations, tangents, and further questions. I also anticipate there will be posts about just music or just urban stuff. Musical Urbanism is inspired by a seminar I\u2019ve taught at Vassar College in\u00a02007,2008, and most recently in\u00a02011. Thanks to my brilliant co-teachers, Heesok Chang and\u00a0Hua Hsu. Image credits: Capitol Hill Block Party 2008\u00a0by deejayres. Partytunnel\u00a0by cosmonautirussi. notting hill carnival 2006\u00a0by rootskontrolla. Reproduced and modified respectfully via Creative Commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}