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Between music geography and iconic music legends, a strong connection has been established in terms of spatial and temporal analysis of popular music and the representation of national identities in the contemporary global cultures of popular music. The existing literature unveils a gap in the analysis of music geography and famous musicians, real global music icons identified with particular cultures. This paper argues that such music legends must be geographically studied to unveil their outstanding contribution to the world music cultures. Against such a background, a geographical approach that takes Canadian singer Céline Dion as a case studyis developed. The research aims to analyse Dion’s outstandingcontribution to global music culture in both spatial and temporal terms. Based on the music industry emergence, the paper focuses on how and why Céline Dion appeared in global music culture and examines her outstanding contribution with specific referenceto music cartographies and statistical research.National identity and related cultural issues beyond the music, lyrics, and performances are also addressed.The empirically led study is based on a multi-method approach and makes use of statistical data analysis, GIS methods, biographicalinquiry, the analysis of lyrics and visual methodologies,all suggesting that Dion’s contribution has greatly influenced the global popular music culture of the last few decades.Although the topics in question cannot be fully discussed within the limits of this paper, it highlights the importance of these issues and calls for further in-depth research to provide a new critical understanding of the intimate connections between popular music, legendary music icons and the recent perspectives in music geographies
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In the present academic research connecting geography and music,a real gap remains in the study of different issues associated with both music and geography and, particularly, to the recent music geographies. This paper advances a new geographical approach in music geography highlighting the relevance of time and space in music, in the artist‟s outstanding contribution to music and in their recognition from the local to the global. Particularly the study is focused on one of the most emblematic music artists of the world, analyzing through a spatio-temporal investigation the prestigious awards achieved by the singer Celine Dion, since this singer remains both a real music legend and an iconic artist gaining multiple awards and thoroughly appreciated and admired for her outstanding contribution to music and global popular culture. The research bases on such specific methods as internet research, visual methodologies, bibliographical analysis and geographic information systems (GIS). The latter is used to provide a professional map illustrating the spatio-temporal distribution of the multiple awards received by Dion the artist. The findings of the research highlight the highest scale of appreciation an artist can receive. The results of the study also suggest that the outstanding contribution of the greatest artists of the world, acknowledged by the highest national, international and global forums, provide significant information about their artistic involvement in the global popular culture. They have a strong relevance both in space and in time, thus labeling different cultural decades and distinct places and spaces throughout the world.