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11 March 2010

Sonic psychogeography: A poetics of place in popular music in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Lecture

This paper explores the relationship between music, place, locality and identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. More than a national identity, there is evidence of a range of regional musics, combining strong global influences with evocations of particular localities. Landscape and 'sonic geography' - Maori or Pakeha, urban or rural - is not restricted to expressions of national identity, but evokes more local poetics of home, belonging, and alienation.