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Abstract
Cultural geographers first turned their attention to the geography of music in the late 1960s. During the past 20 years, a significant body of research has been published in or presented to almost 100 professional outlets. Research productivity peaked in the 1970s with most of the studies focusing on American folk and popular music. This essay outlines the seminal works in the geography of music, examines the literature on various music phenomena studied by geographers, discusses trends during the past two decades, and considers reasons why geographers were attracted to music. The wedding of cultural geography with the study of music constitutes an important research frontier—a frontier complete with ready-made questions, more than ample data base, and a seemingly endless future. Music has become a significant subfield within cultural geography.