Sacred Spaces And Tourist Places: An Analysis

You walk down the Haymarket area you hear jazz music coming from the business. You go to a game in Memorial Stadium classic rock songs are coming through the loudspeakers. When you go to the gym to work out a rap song is blaring out of the speakers. Music is constantly around us. When people hear a song images pop into their heads. Music plays a key role in the sense of place. The articles Place or Space and Sacred Spaces and Tourist Places, the way images are presented, and the things I learned all contributed to our project in the way music corresponds to geographic sense of place. In the article Place or Space by Mike Crang, Mike writes, “Spaces become places as they become ‘time thickened’. They have a past and future that binds people together around them.” This really applies to all of the pictures that are in our presentation, but it really speaks loudly for the pictures on slides on four and five. Over time towns either grow or become obsolete. Lots of towns in rural America have become “ghost towns”. Just because these towns do not have people roaming the streets does not mean they have returned to being spaces. They are still places because of the things that have happened in them and things will happen in them in the future. That is …show more content…
Everyone in the class that did the project had a different sense of place. One thing that contributes to sense of place is the different experiences we all have had in our lives and the places where we are from. One of the similarities is that we all have a sense place, even though our places different. Picking the images for the song did not contribute to me hearing or seeing the music differently. I think one of the main reasons for this is because I have heard the song many times, so I already had those preset images in my head. It was very interesting to see my partner pick out images because he picked out images that I never thought