Walkin’ blues: exploring the semiotic musicscape of Rory Gallagher’s Cork City

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Table 1. A framework to study semiotic musicscapes based on Scollon and Scollon (2003), Lou (2017) and Holmberg (2021).

Interaction order	Visual semiotics	Place semiotics
1. Type of interaction	1. Language	1. Emplacement (physical location of text/artefact)
(i.e. silent reflection, conversation, photography/filming, etc.)	2. Image	2. Perceptual spaces (visual, auditory, olfactory, thermal, haptic)
2. Offline vs. online interaction (with person)	3. Typography	3. Imagined spaces (past uses of space, evolving uses, removed texts/artefacts)
3. Interpersonal distance (intimate, personal, social, public)	4. Colour	4. Emotional spaces (personal feelings generated by physicality in space)
4. Posture and movement	5. Texture
5. Sense of time 6. Reading order (with texts/artefacts)	6. Layout/composition
	7. Modality

Figure 1. A walking tour of Rory Gallagher’s Cork City. Source: Created by author.

Figure 2. St Oliver’s Cemetery. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 3. Rory Gallagher’s Grave. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 4. Rory Gallagher Music Library. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 5. Replica of Rory Gallagher’s 1961 Fender Stratocaster. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 6. 50th Anniversary Fender Stratocaster Presentation. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 7. Rory Gallagher Tribute Sculpture. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 8. Rory Gallagher Place. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 9. Crawford Art Gallery and Cork Opera House. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 10. St Patrick’s Hill and Bell’s Field then and now. Source: Music Makers documentary (1972) and author’s own photo.

Figure 11. 11 Sidney Park then and now. Source: Irish Tour ‘74 documentary and author’s own photo.

Figure 12. Commemorative Plaque on MacCurtain Street. Source: Author’s own photo.

Figure 13. Gallagher House Plaque. Source: Reading the Signs, https://readingthesigns.weebly.com/blog/rory-gallagher.

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