This article focuses on the relation between music and place. More particularly, it theorizes and investigates how music leads people to imagine places, sometimes resulting in a ‘musical topophilia’: the love for a place based on its association with a particular genre, musician or musical activity. This concept is explored through 17 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with Dutch users of music streaming services. The analysis shows how these music listeners connect their love for music to places in four ways: through (1) sound, (2) texts and images, (3) musicians, and (4) places of music production, distribution or consumption. Based on these four mediations, music listening shapes affective geographies.

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doi.org/10.1177/1367549419847110, hdl.handle.net/1765/124964
European Journal of Cultural Studies
Arts & Culture Studies

Bolderman, L., & Reijnders, S. (2019). Sharing Songs on Hiragata Square. On Playlists and Place Attachment in Contemporary Music Listening. European Journal of Cultural Studies. doi:10.1177/1367549419847110