Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music

In the first essay in Part 1, 'Music, Space and Political Activism', Robert J. Kruse II explores the Lennon/Ono peace campaign of 1969, including the way the couple used the non-sexual significance of the bedroom to relocate and defamiliarise political protest, and to bridge private feminised space and public masculinised space (pp. 21-23). The 'bed-ins' perplexed the media, partly because Lennon and Ono 'were proposing strategies for peace that were based on symbolic and imaginative geographies, tactics difficult to evaluate in terms of instrumental social change' (p. 26). In Part 5, 'Local Music in a Connected World' Sarah Beth Keogh's ethnographic survey of 'the impact of Internet broadcasting in the radio market in St. John's, Newfoundland' (p. 186) provides lessons regarding 'glocalisation'.