Music Production in the Music City

Music Production in the Music City considers how music is produced in specific urban contexts, and features four case studies from a diverse set of cities - Berlin, Nashville, Chennai, and Brisbane - to investigate how music comes to be created in locally specific music production contexts.

Yanto Browning is a lecturer in Music in the Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology. Yanto's research interests include equity in education, music cities paradigmatic research, music production methodologies, and interactive media technologies. Yanto has published in journals such as Cultural Trends, Cities, and the International Journal of Inclusive Education. Yanto is an active musician and music producer, with over 20 years in the music industry as a record producer and studio engineer. His music production work has resulted in several ARIA-nominated releases and multiple Australian Gold- and Platinum-certified records.

1. The political economy and urban context of music production 2. The relationship between the city and music 3. Why a music city needs more than just live venues: Cities and the tension between recording studios and live music venues 4. Nashville: The first music city 5. Berlin: Technology as scene 6. Chennai: Playing for movies 7. Brisbane: Do more garages mean more garage rock? 8. Discussion 9. Conclusions