@article{13276,
  keywords = {popular music, Post-industrial, Sheffield, electronic music‌, intangible heritage, Landscape, sonic identity, steel industry},
  author = {John Schofield and Ron Wright},
  title = {Sonic Heritage, Identity and Music-making in Sheffield, "Steel City"},
  abstract = {This paper examines the way pervasive influences within the built environment shape heritage and identity. With a focus on Sheffield, a northern English city strongly associated with a now largely defunct steel industry, the paper investigates how the city’s industrial past, its location and social fabric have shaped music-making, creating a distinctive scene that has become central to the city’s cultural identity. Using a combination of in-depth interviews and documentary analysis, Sheffield is presented from the mid-1970s as experiencing what can be referred to as a “sonic cycle” in which the city’s musicians refer to the sound of the drop-hammer in the steel forges being a backdrop to their childhood and a clear influence as they began their musical careers, and how the “industrial music” scene which they created has in turn shaped a new heritage identity. The paper concludes by promoting the idea that music created by local musicians forms a vital part of Sheffield’s character and is an essential ingredient for shaping alternative urban futures.},
  volume = {13},
  number = {3},
  pages = {198-222},
  issn = {2159032X (ISSN)},
  url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114874884&doi=10.1080%2f2159032X.2021.1968227&partnerID=40&md5=3eaf6468b7db00db0d2c18cfa89afd62},
  doi = {10.1080/2159032X.2021.1968227},
  note = {Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.},
}