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Each of these songs represents a scene, a movement, in some cases, a sonic revolution that completely altered the course of popular music.
They're all also calling cards, almost, for those cities, songs totally linked with their city's identity, and it might be why you probably consider them to be music cities.
A formula didn't give us grunge music or introduce Tupac to Dr. Dre, and there's definitely no blueprint for how to open your record business in a South Memphis neighborhood that, turns out, is home to Booker T.
When the stars perfectly align, great music just happens.
There are musicians all around you, making powerful, important music, and thanks to the internet and its limitless possibilities for creators to create music and fans to discover that music, those zeitgeist songs don't have to be handed down to us from some conference room full of songwriters in a corporate high-rise.
But also, and more importantly, we can't decide that it's just something that happens, because music is about so much more than hits, those big, iconic moments that change everything.
For so many of us, music is truly a way to navigate life.
Music makes us smarter and healthier and happier.
Music is necessary.
We're a music city because music is necessary."
By seeing music as necessary, a city can build two things: first, an ecosystem to support the development of professional musicians and music business; and second, a receptive and engaged audience to sustain them.
And those are the two critical elements of a music city, a city whose leaders recognize the importance of music for our development as individuals, our connection as a community and our viability as a vibrant place to live.
See, smart cities, music cities, know that thriving nightlife, a creative class, culture is what attracts young, talented people to cities. It's what brings that lightning.
We should count monthly free jazz nights and weekly folk jams, music schools, artist development, instrument shops, every lathe and every luthier, music museums open year round and music festivals open just one weekend a year.
When it comes to specific support for music locally and a broad understanding of a music brand nationally, you've got to have the receipts.
There are lots of music venues on our map.
Maybe, like in London, where the number of music venues went from 400 in 2010 to 100 in 2015, we need to think about protections against gentrification.
If a real-estate developer wants to build condos next to an existing music venue, the developer is the agent of change.
And that will never stop being an important element of the way music is made, the way some of the best, most enduring music is made.
In 2018, thriving music cities don't often happen and don't have to happen accidentally.
We need elected officials who recognize the power of music and elevate the voices of creatives, and they're ready to put a strategy in place.
The strongest strategies will build music community supports like this one inward while also exporting music outward.
And when we look outward, we build opportunities for them to advance their career while also driving attention back to our city and leveraging music as a talent-attraction tool.
Now, when I say Austin, you probably think "live music capital."
By recognizing that momentum, naming it and claiming it, they inevitably caused more live music venues to open, existing spaces to add live music to their repertoire, and they created a swell of civic buy-in around the idea, which meant that it wasn't just a slogan in some tourism pamphlet.
Be that receptive and engaged audience that is so necessary for a music city to thrive.
Discover new music, and please, take your friends.
Seek out leadership that doesn't just pay lip service to your city's music, but recognizes its power and is prepared to put a strategy in place to elevate it, grow it and build collaboration.
There really is no telling what city could be defined by a certain scene or a certain song in the next decade, but as much as we absolutely cannot predict that, what we absolutely can predict is what happens when we treat music as necessary and we work to build a music city.
Music lovers and jazz lovers alike, please give a warm hand of applause for the one and only Mr. Peeping Tom.
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