Sound, Space, and the City Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles - Peterson, Marina (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
Biographical note: Marina Peterson is an anthropologist who teaches performance studies at Ohio University, and coeditor of Global Downtowns, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press
Main description: In Sound, Space, and the City, Marina Peterson explores the processes—from urban renewal to the performance of ethnicity and the experiences of audiences—through which civic space is created at music performances in downtown Los Angeles