Robbie Bruens’s Reviews > Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles > Status Update

"Marketing is a tool of both capital and the state that intersects with the formation of publics structured by categories of multicultural recognition. Multiple publics organized around music, taste, or identity help create the audience as the public of the city at the same time as they have their own organizing principles that can be discursive or practical, with different demands of interaction and 'publicness.'"