Contemporary Music Tourism

<p>This book explores the growing phenomenon of music tourism – instances of people visiting places because of a connection with music. Asking how an abstract art form such as music can lead to tourism and how the popularity of music tourism in contemporary culture might be explained it presents a comparative study of musical tourism in various locations across Europe in relation to a range of musical genres. Through the concept of ‘musical topophilia’ the author offers a timely and insightful analysis of the affective attachment to place and music showing how and why music literally moves people. This account enables us to grasp the complex ways in which music place and tourism are connected in practice. Based on empirical case studies <i>Contemporary Music Tourism </i>lays the foundation for a theoretical grounding of music tourism as a research field and as such will appeal to scholars of geography music sociology tourism and cultural studies.</p>