Musical Cartographies of Madrid: City, Popular Music and New Digital Technologies

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to describe and to discuss a series of musical mappings of Madrid scenes, that allow us to visualize its geografical location as well as to understand the heterogeneous nature of the places which form it. We present six digital online maps defined by the nature, the history and the identity of blues scenes in Madrid. These maps, however, do transcend their boundaries to show the mixture of different musical styles in common places of urban music. the focus of this paper is linked with anthropological, geographical and identity and memory elements and new technologies, allowing us study our subject either from a diachronical and a synchronical perspective, which enriches its musical, cultural and communicative analysis.