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This article examines the role of three community-based music projects—in Newcastle (Australia), Thanet (United Kingdom), and the City of Playford (Australia)—in engendering notions of regionalism, locality, and identity. Through their involvement in these projects, young people are placed at the intersection of music program management, city mythologies, and national policy. Each of the three projects examined attempts to facilitate urban regeneration through supplying their target community with what one regional arts development officer has coined a "musical spin." However, within wider cultural frameworks, youth's lived experience is often at odds with grander ideals of community arts space. Thus, although the discourses of "creative" urban regeneration articulated by the facilitators of community-based music projects may appear credible at the level of cultural policy, their practical implementation is problematized by competing local narratives that are grounded in established local knowledges and often highly resistant to intervention by outside sources.

Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Heritage and immigration, noise and art, policy and politics are some of the topics that are addressed in this critical examination of relationships between cities and music.

Introduction -- The economics of music exports -- Music entrepreneurs and export readiness -- Networking at music industry export events -- Case study : Australia -- National case studies, export schemes and policy -- Born global? -- Appendix 1. Interview list -- Appendix 2. Australian Music Industry Exports Survey -- Appendix 3. Music export snapshots.