Géographie et lieux de chant à Shanghai

• Main Author: Sarah Defoin-Merlin
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique 2018-12-01
• Series: EchoGéo
• Subjects: appropriation; musical geography; Shanghai; singing; socio-cultural structure; spatiotemporal urban planning
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/16304

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the city of Shanghai through the various places in which people sing. This method of basing research on musical geography is an original way to report both the planning and the spatio-temporal, socio-cultural organization of the city. The distribution, geographic location, architecture, temporality and visits of the singing places evidence the urban and cultural policies, and show how the Shanghainese society is structured and operates. The emergence of specific urban practices, the alteration of the way the inhabitants perceive their town along with the reorganisation of some public spaces, which were all triggered by the process of singing, also reveal new urban and social processes.