Exploring the Character of Place in Lubbock through Interviews, Mental Maps, and the Place Histories of Local Musicians

This research utilizes interviews with local musicians, mental maps collected from them, and the words of their music to construct the spatial character of Lubbock, Texas as expressed by its musicians. It answers three questions: Do the methods used answer the following two questions? How do musicians interact with this distinctive cultural and physical environment? To what extent is this an example of Edward Soja’s concept of Thirdspace? The trialectic framework provided by Soja’s theory of Thirdspace recognizes the spatiality of relationships not just between individuals and their landscapes, but individuals within their community. Further, it demonstrates the influence these relationships have on socially constructed space.