I'm sorry for the lateness with this, guys, but here is my proposed abstract for our paper. I am hoping to send this for consideration to the EMP Pop Music Conference as well and could definitely use any feedback you may have! Thanks for reading!
Los Angeles is often discussed academically as the city of the future, a region of newly globalized madness where people from around the world intermingle in a postmodern landscape like never before. The sprawled out, self-segregated nature of this city creates a culture defined by detached nostalgia, distance and resistance and indeed this can be felt in the music created here from aggressive gangster rap beats to the whimsical anti-war songs of Laurel Canyon’s heydey. Only 25 miles to the south, however, the neighboring port city of Long Beach plays a different tune. Instead of music created by Los Angeles’ uniquely disparate-yet-global circumstance, Long Beach’s own density-defined urban dynamic allows the city’s global influences to come together in new and distinct ways. As the most diverse city in the country, Long Beach fosters a culture of forced collisions and creates a space that has been home to a slew of new global music forms that are as experimental as they are unintentional. Drawing on globalization theories surrounding both the city of Los Angeles and cultural production, this paper will analyze the new sounds produced throughout Long Beach music history as well as their global and glocal contexts. I will explain how the globalization of Long Beach has and continues to contribute its influence into popular music and why new sounds emerging from the city such as reggae-jazz-hop, Khmer-rap and emo-gospel, are being organically produced through the globalized nature of the city itself.
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