Function and Urban Meaning of the Spaces for Music in the Western City

To know the urban location & the characteristics the spaces designed for a specific social activity contributes to understand its function in the city & the relations established with the other activities & social estates. Starting off of this idea, the spaces for "classical music,&...

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Published inPolítica y sociedad (Madrid, Spain) Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 13 - 38
Main Author Goycoolea Prado, Roberto
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published 01.01.2007
Subjects
Architecture
Art Works
History
Music
Power
Urban Areas
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Summary:To know the urban location & the characteristics the spaces designed for a specific social activity contributes to understand its function in the city & the relations established with the other activities & social estates. Starting off of this idea, the spaces for "classical music," understood like results of the interactions between the music & the estates of the political and/or economic power that have promoted them in the modern western city, are analyzed in the article. It is not purpose of the article to make a history of the appearance & urban meaning of the spaces for music, if not to study those that are assumption new ways to understand the relation art-power in the public space. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:1130-8001