Performing the New Diasporas: Contemporary African Ritual Music in North America

Contents:

+++ Articles

* Austin C. Okigbo: Introduction: Music and New African Diasporas in North America
* Daniel B. Reed,: An Ivorian Wedding in an Indiana Cornfield: "Ballet" Discourse and New Diasporic Community
* Teresita D. Lozano: "It's a Coptic Thing:" Music, Liturgy, and Religious Identity in an American Coptic Community
* Susan Hurley-Glowa: Walking Between the Lines: Cape Verdean Musical Communities in North Americay
* Gillian Richards-Greaves: Come to My Kwe-Kwe: African Guyanese Ritual Music and the Construction of a Secondary Diaspora in New York City
* Austin C. Okigbo: Ahiajioku in Chicago: Festival, Music, and the Performance of Nigerian Igbo Identity in a North American City
* Megan Quilliam: Musical Transformation and Transmission: Toward Interpretive Learning of Zimbabwean Music in a North American World Music Academy

+++ Book Reviews (Eva-Maria van Straaten, ed.)

* Katherine Lynn Meizel: Christian Utz and Frederick Lau (eds.), Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (2013)
* Jennifer Fraser Julia Byl, Antiphonal Histories: Resonant Pasts in the Toba Batak Musical Present (2014)
* Lawrence Davies Jon Stratton, When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945-2010 (2014)
* Ferdia J. Stone-Davis Jeremy S. Begbie, Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening (2014)
* Petra R. Rivera-Rideau Alejandro L. Madrid (ed.), Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2011)
* Bode Omojola George Dor, West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective (2014)
* Charissa Granger Timothy Rommen and Daniel T. Neely (eds.), Sun, Sea and Sound: Music and Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean (2014)
* Michael Colvin Lila Ellen Gray, Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life (2013)

+++ Recording Reviews ((Robert Fry, ed.)

* Tyler Fritts: Ester Rada: Ester Rada. Produced and distributed by Eighth Note Productions, Israel (2014)
* Katie Arata: Kingston City: New Kingston. Produced by Easy Star Records, New York (2015)
* Katie Walden: Listen Up! The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Album. Produced by Sony Music Entertainment's Epic Records in New York City, New York, in partnership with Federation Internationale de Football Association (2010)

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