Music Production in the Music City: The Undersong of Place

Music Production in the Music City considers how music is produced in specific urban contexts.

Music Production in the Music City features four case studies from a diverse set of cities - Berlin, Nashville, Chennai, and Brisbane - to investigate how music comes to be created in locally specific music production contexts. These case studies inform a thorough examination of the various factors that shape music production practices specific to urban contexts. The author uses a new conceptual framework called the ’undersong’ to analyse the aural foundations of a city, examining how policy design can help or hinder a productive music production scene.

This is a cutting-edge contribution to music city studies, and will be of great interest to researchers, postgraduates, and advanced undergraduates studying music production and world music. This book will also be of interest to those involved in urban policy work related to the live and recorded music industries.

Yanto Browning is a lecturer in Music in the Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology. Yanto’s research interests include equity in education, music cities paradigmatic research, music production methodologies, and interactive media technologies. Yanto has published in journals such as Cultural Trends, Cities, and the International Journal of Inclusive Education. Yanto is an active musician and music producer, with over twenty years in the music industry as a record producer and studio engineer. His music production work has resulted in several ARIA-nominated releases and multiple Australian Gold- and Platinum-certified records.