Music Production in the Music City

The Undersong of Place

Yanto Browning

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Focal Press
01 April 2025

Music: styles & genres; Music recording & reproduction; Audio processing

Series: Perspectives on Music Production

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.

By: Yanto Browning
Imprint: Focal Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032584669
ISBN 10: 1032584661
Series: Perspectives on Music Production
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. The political economy and urban context of music production 2. The relationship between the city and music 3. Why a music city needs more than just live venues - Cities and the tension between recording studios and live music venues 4. Nashville - The first music city 5. Berlin - Technology as scene 6. Chennai - Playing for movies 7. Brisbane – Do more garages mean more garage rock? 8. Discussion 9. Conclusions

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 20 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.