Christina Ballico & Allan Watson 
Music Cities [PDF ebook] 
Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept

1. Introduction.- 2. Re-Rewind: Heritage, representation and music city aspiration in Southampton.- 3. Community well-being, post-industrial music cities and the turn to popular music heritage.- 4. Beyond nostalgic Havana: Music and identity in the Fábrica de Arte Cubano.- 5. The place of the Beatles within Liverpool as a UNESCO City of Music.- 6. Chennai: Culture at the cusp of change.- 7. A Bottom-up Strategy for Music Cities: The Case of San Juan, Puerto Rico.- 8. Regulating the San Francisco sound: How a music venue crackdown inspired pioneering advancements in entertainment regulation and support.- 9. The UK live music census: making live music count in Glasgow, Newcastle, Oxford, and beyond.

Christina Ballico is Head of the Masters of Creative Industries at JMC Academy, Brisbane, Australia. Ballico is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Her research examines music industries and scenes, music cities and cultural policy.
Allan Watson is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Watson has published widely on the geographies of music. He is author of Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio (2014) and co-editor of Rethinking Creative Cities Policy: Invisible Agents and Hidden Protagonists (2015).