Every Town Is All the Same When You've Left Your Heart in the Portland Rain: Representations of Portland Place and Local Identity in Portland Popular Lyrics

This study looks at how place and local identity of Portland are described within music lyrics from Portland, Oregon popular indie-rock artists. Employing a constant comparative analysis on a set of 1,201 songs from 21 different popular Portland indie-rock artists, the themes of landscapes and clima...

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Main Author: Kearney, Meghan Andrea
Format: Others
Published: PDXScholar 2013
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Online Access:https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1489
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2488&context=open_access_etds