Jun 26: Lived landscapes

Sara Cohen and Robert Kronenburg 2018, wrote Liverpool's Musical Landscapes.

Liverpool has gained a national and international reputation for popular music, most recently recognised in its designation as a UNESCO City of Music in 2015.

As this project showed, in Liverpool the architecture, history, social landscape and culture combined to shape an urban identity comprising four elements - which could be identified in other cities as well: 

• local landscapes (the role of music in the city’s everyday life); 
• global trends (in the development and global networking of provincial and post-industrial cities); 
• material landscapes (the importance of material culture in conveying and communicating these narratives, through a combination of places and things); 
• lived landscapes (music’s influence on how the city is lived and experienced).

Cohen, S., and R. Kronenburg. 2018. Liverpool’s Musical Landscapes. Swindon: Historic England.