Listening to an other England: A geographical approach of punk music

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In our spirit, music just can be an artful arrangement of sounds across time. In fact, "music is part of virtually every culture on Earth, but it varies widely among cultures in style and structure" (Bulter David). More complex than it should be, music link art, society, space and culture, and by its all forms it is a system. Between our two research projects of "sciences of territory" master, the study of punk music can make the surprise. One of us works on the paper of music in geography, the other on sensible territories. Both are thinking that music can be relevant in the next years, and not only in geography. It is everywhere and every time, it is source of economical, political and social stakes, everybody in the world can have an access to it. Yet, its style, its signification or the values its leaves exist in many different forms. Its use and the message its produces are not always simples to descript, but more and more works show that it is most of the time an image of the society. To go to some question, we want introduce this topic in a geographic approach by the example of a specific place and time. How can we aboard music in geography? What is the interest we have? By which process music take place in the society? And overall, how it can be a producer of identity, a vehicle of a social discourse? All this questions are link to our theory which puts music in the situation of a territory marker and a place maker. Thus, we will introduce our argument in a scientific and critical way, taking care of the necessity we have to look serious and credible. In a first part, we going to try establish and affirm the role of music in geography and the trace the latter leave in its. A second part will deals with punk music in the crisis of the 70's in England by a territorial and social aspect.