{"product_id":"listening-to-landscape-hauntology-and-the-echoes-of-albion-9798765112922","title":"Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book-length exploration of how English landscapes are represented in contemporary electronic and experimental music, \u003ci\u003eListening to Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e ploughs its own furrow, combining ideas from psychogeography, hauntology and landscape studies to offer a distinctive take on the way contemporary music deals with the ghosts of an England that is fast disappearing. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAway from the Top 40, and often circulating in the form of obscure cassette releases and limited vinyl runs, acts including \u003ci\u003eBelbury Poly, Craven Faults, epic45, Gilroy Mere, Spaceship, Vic Mars, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan\u003c\/i\u003e - and many others besides - work in experimental genres including folktronica, ambient, modular synth, drone, post-rock and noise. But all have an apparent preoccupation with summoning the essence of place, often working with ideas of memory, loss and thwarted futurity associated with disappearing or threatened English landscapes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving deftly between cultural theory, musicology and geography, \u003ci\u003eListening to Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a primer on the 'hauntological' music scene that appears fixated on questions of landscape and Englishness. It argues this music is no mere exercise in nostalgia, but a provocation asking us to re-imagine England's place in the world at a time of economic and environmental crisis. \u003ci\u003eListening to Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to urgent questions of national identity in the post-Brexit era, offering a distinctive take on the way contemporary culture deals with the ghosts and memories of Albion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes a foreword by Justin P. Hopper, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Old Weird Albion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhil Hubbard\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Urban Futures Research Group at King's College London, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCities and Sexualities\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for the High Street\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eCity, Second Edition \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), \u003ci\u003eBorderland \u003c\/i\u003e(2022), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eKey Thinkers in Space and Place, Third Edition \u003c\/i\u003e(2024), among others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890532614418,"sku":"9798765112922","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7635902d-8211-4d86-b6a2-8dc13aea8f85.jpg?v=1768306782","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/listening-to-landscape-hauntology-and-the-echoes-of-albion-9798765112922","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}