Journal of Cultural Geography articles from September 1998

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from September 1998

Music Geography.
September 22, 1998... More than 30 years have elapsed since Peter Hugh Nash (1968) of the University of Waterloo authored "Music Regions and Regional Music," the first scholarly article on music authored by a professional geographer. Two years later, Jeffrey Gordon...

Place and Innovation in Popular Music: The Bebop Revolution in Jazz.
September 22, 1998... Abstract. This paper explores the relationship between place and processes of innovation in popular music, focusing on the example of the bebop style of jazz. Bebop emerged during the 1940s both as a reaction against older jazz styles and as an...

Why Seattle? An Examination of an Alternative Rock Culture Hearth.
September 22, 1998... Abstract: This article examines the emergence of the "Seattle sound" as a form of alternative rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sometimes called "grunge," the "Seattle sound" is reflective of the youth culture in the region. The...

"Get Your Kicks on Route 66!" A Song Map of Postwar Migration.
September 22, 1998... Abstract: The popular song hit "Get Your Kicks on Route 66!" was written by Bobby Troup with his wife Cynthia on their transcontinental road trip of 1946 from Pennsylvania to California. The original song is analyzed as a record of overnight...

Lubbock on Everything: The Evocation of Place in Popular Music (A West Texas Example).
September 22, 1998... Abstract. Much has been written about the important role place can play in literature, the visual arts, and film, and the ways in which creative works can shape our views of particular places. Comparatively, however, little analysis has been...

Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie, Migrants' Tales, and Regional Transformation in the Pacific Northwest.
September 22, 1998... Abstract. The coming of electricity to rural America in the interwar period seemed to offer prospects not just for economic development but also for remaking lives and for social transformation. This paper deals with the expression of such...

Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures. Edited by Tracey Skelton and Gill Valentine. New York: Routledge, 1998. Acknowledgments, figures, plates, references, list of contributors, and index, xi + 383 pp. $23.99 paper. By setting and...

Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity. By Geoffrey Fox. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1997. Acknowledgments, notes, and index, viii+241 pp. $17.95 paper. According to the United States Bureau of the...

Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism. By Rebecca Conard. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. Acknowledgments, foreword, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. xv+288 pp. $15.95 paper. Places of Quiet...

To Live in the New World: A. J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening.(Review)
September 22, 1998... To Live in the New World: A. J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening. By Judith K. Major. Cambridge: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. Acknowledgments, appendix, notes, bibliography; and index, ix+165 pp. $40.00 cloth. ...

Carolina's Historical Landscapes: Archaeological Perspectives.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Carolina's Historical Landscapes: Archaeological Perspectives. Edited by Linda F. Stine, Martha Zierden, Lesley M. Drucker, and Christopher Judge. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Preface, illustrations, bibliography,...

New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal and Regrouping of Migrant Communities.(Review)
September 22, 1998... New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal and Regrouping of Migrant Communities. By Nicholas Van Hear. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. List of tables, preface, map, bibliography, and index, xv+298 pp. $22.00 paper New...

Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements. Edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts. New York: Routledge, 1996. Illustrations, contributors, preface, and index, xii+268 pp. $19.95 paper. Richard Peet and Michael...

Disasters: Violence of Nature and Threats by Man.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Disasters: Violence of Nature and Threats by Man. By Charles H. V. Ebert. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1997. Preface, introduction, glossary, references, index and disk. xii+238 pp. $33.95 paper. From the first page of text, the author...