Music Place and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

<p><em>Music Place and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860</em> presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical cultural and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts demonstrating how music and sound were intimately connected to changing social and political practices. The volume offers a critical redefinition of the core concept of soundscape considering musical practices through the lenses of territory space representation and identity in five parts:</p><ul> <li>Soundscape Phonosphere and Urban History</li> <li>Urban Soundscapes across Time</li> <li>Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities</li> <li>Urban Soundscapes in Literary Sources</li> <li>Reconstructing Urban Soundscapes in the Digital Era</li> </ul><p><i>Music Place and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 </i>reframes our understanding of Italian music history beyond models of patronage investigating how sounds and musics have contributed to the construction of human identities and communities.</p>