El espacio urbano en la música popular: de la apropiación discursiva a la mercantilización

The relationship between pop music and the urban space gives rise to a dialectic which affects both the definition of music genres and the social concept of the spatiality of major cities. In this article we examine the representation of different places in Madrid in different video clips, analyzing their discursive meaning and their articulation of identity, related to the values associated with certain artists and repertories; that is to say, the configuration of the urban ethos through its representation in musical production.