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Listening to Landscape : Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion.

Bloomsbury Collections: Music & Sound Studies 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hubbard, Phil, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cultural geography.
Music and geography--England.
Music and geography.
Music--Environmental aspects--England.
Music.
Soundscapes (Music)--England.
Soundscapes (Music).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Distribution:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
System Details:
text file HTML
Summary:
An exploration of national identity that considers how dominant, antiquated versions of Englishness are currently being challenged through contemporary, experimental, electronic music.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Author's note
Foreword
Chapter 1: Soundtracking the Nation
Questioning the rural idyll
Landscape, music and nationalism
Beyond the pastoral?
Electronic music's 'landscape turn'
Chapter 2: The Past is Happening Now
Defining the hauntological
Presenting . . . Ghost Box Records
Once upon a time in the West Midlands
Haunted landscapes
Chapter 3: Lost Landscapes of Modernity
Romantic moderns
In the country
Chapter 4: A Broken Concrete Utopia
Gateway to the future?
Crumbling utopias
Chapter 5: The Sound of the Edgelands
More-than-human Manchester
Steel city sounds
Empty houses, overgrown towpaths and old railway lines
Chapter 6: Weird Walking and the Prehistoric Past
Music of the Megaliths
Ancient atmospheres
Great British railways and the Megalithic Transport Network
Chapter 7: Strange Ruralities and Folk Geographies
Downland dreaming
The ritual year
Tunes from the Albion Library
Chapter 8: Deep Time and Psychogeology
A Northern landscape?
Psychogeological perumbulations
Chapter 9: The Frayed Edge
Coastal decay, national decline
Living on the frontline
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Select Discography
Index.
ISBN:
9798765112953
9798765112946
9798765112939
OCLC:
1535405894

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