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REPRESENTING CITIES, PLACES AND CULTURES THROUGH MUSIC TOURISM AND ICONIC MUSIC LEGENDS: A SHORT GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF CELINE DION’S MUSIC AND TRAVEL
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Cities, cultures, tourism and music have always been connected through the close relations between urban places as music venues, tourists and legendary musicians which perform to largest audiences. This paper aims to briefly examine the most important relations between music, tourism, cities and iconic musicians considering as a case in point, one of the most emblematic artists in the contemporary global popular culture - the iconic songstress Celine Dion. The article unveils the most important features which connect places with different cultures, with the fans as music tourists and with the outstanding artists that shape particular landscapes based on their tours and live performances. The article, in brief unveils, the most important cities and cultures that are frequently inserted in the artists’ agenda trying to highlight the places and the cities’ cultural specificities through the lens of popular music and lyrics analysis. The main methods used in this paper belongs to media tools analysis using a musical documentary and the discourse analysis of both the artist and the people/music tourists. The main findings highlight that cities and places, beyond remaining emblematic music venues and touristic places for a large number of people that travel from different places to see their favorite artists, are places with specific cultural identities often represented in/through music and, furthermore, through the music of legendary artists and through the artists themselves.
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