Empirical Problems and Perspectives of Music-based Town and Metropolis Research

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous grade: keine Klagenfurt University course: Lecture at the XIV. International Congress of the Association of Musicology with the subject Music and the city - Traditions and perspectives of urban music cultures 2008-10-01 at Leipzig University (Germany) language: English abstract: The following article is intended to point up a few of the empirical-methodological problems which arose in the course of a small case study. This can at best lead to further comparable or larger studies.As a minimum the text will have achieved its goal if it clarifies the initial thinking behind a concrete music-based town study i.e. if it reveals clearly the first steps to be undertaken in such astudy. Considerations of the method and of the methodology of such studies will replace a more comprehensive analysis of the data gathered in the actual case study.