Why have certain cities around the world developed as Electronic Cities?This is the question that a new book, Electronic Cities aims to answer. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠This week on POP; The History Makers, I'll be looking at certain European Electronic Cities with one of the book's editors, Sébastien Darchen, who holds a Ph.D. in Urban Studies.⁠⁠⁠Electronic Cities looks at the connection between the music and planning policies and the development of the urban electronic scenes in specific cities around the world. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠Other editors include Damien Charrieras, an Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media (City University of Hong Kong), and John Willsteed, an academic who was a former member of the Australian band - The Go-Betweens⁠. ⁠⁠Contributions are from a combination of urban scholars and musicians - I'll just mention a few of the musicians - Rudi Esch, former bass player with Die Krupps. Erik Stein, musician, and writer, and Berlin-based musician, and record producer Mark Reeder. ⁠⁠This week on POP; The History Makers - these historic Electronic Music Scenes in Europe. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠Monday; Electronic Cities - Podcast Interview with Sébastien Darchen.⁠ ⁠ ⁠And the rest of the week these are the interviews of artists that represent these cities:Tuesday; Sheffield - Podcast interview with Martyn Ware.⁠ ⁠Wednesday; Berlin - Podcast interview with Mark Reeder.⁠ ⁠Thursday; Berlin - Podcast interview with Westbam.⁠ ⁠ ⁠Friday; Düsseldorf - Podcast interview with Wolfang Flür.⁠ ⁠Martyn Ware's biography is out at the moment on all platforms. He makes a fascinating listen, so look out for his book - Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography - which is available on Amazon.Mark Reeder will be interviewed on the 13th of august, the Anniversary of the building of the Berlin wall) at the STASI museum - see link below.https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/ueber-uns/termin/auswaertsspiel-die-toten-hosen-in-ost-berlin-dokumentation-berlin-13-08-2022/WestBam latest; https://www.westbam.de/ - for gigs and music.More info about Flür here: https://www.facebook.com/WolfgangFlur1Sébastien's book is available here; ⁠ ⁠⁠https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-33-4741-0 Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.