Scattered Musics
Published on 19. March 2021
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4968-3236-8 (ISBN)
Description
Contributions by Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Benjamin Burkhart, Ivy Chevers, Martha I. Chew Sanchez, Athena Elafros, William Garcia-Medina, Sara Goek, Eyvind Kang, Junko Oba, Juan David Rubio Restrepo, and Gareth Dylan Smith
In Scattered Musics, editors Martha I. Chew Sanchez and David Henderson, along with a range of authors from a variety of scholarly backgrounds, consider the musics that diaspora and migrant populations are inspired to create, how musics and musicians travel, and how they change in transit. The authors cover a lot of ground: cumbia in Mexico, musica sertaneja in Japan, hip-hop in Canada, Irish music in the US and the UK, reggae and dancehall in Germany, and more. Diasporic groups transform the musical expressions of their home countries as well as those in their host communities. The studies collected here show how these transformations are ways of grappling with ever-changing patterns of movement. Different diasporas hold their homelands in different regards. Some communities try to recreate home away from home in musical performances, while others use music to critique and redefine their senses of home. Through music, people seek to reconstruct and refine collective memory and a collective sense of place.
The essays in this volume-by sociologists, historians, ethnomusicologists, and others-explore these questions in ways that are theoretically sophisticated yet readable, making evident the complexities of musical and social phenomena in diaspora and migrant populations. As the opening paragraph of the introduction to the volume observes, ""What remains when people have been scattered apart is a strong urge to gather together, to collect."" At few times in our lives has that ever been more apparent than right now.
In Scattered Musics, editors Martha I. Chew Sanchez and David Henderson, along with a range of authors from a variety of scholarly backgrounds, consider the musics that diaspora and migrant populations are inspired to create, how musics and musicians travel, and how they change in transit. The authors cover a lot of ground: cumbia in Mexico, musica sertaneja in Japan, hip-hop in Canada, Irish music in the US and the UK, reggae and dancehall in Germany, and more. Diasporic groups transform the musical expressions of their home countries as well as those in their host communities. The studies collected here show how these transformations are ways of grappling with ever-changing patterns of movement. Different diasporas hold their homelands in different regards. Some communities try to recreate home away from home in musical performances, while others use music to critique and redefine their senses of home. Through music, people seek to reconstruct and refine collective memory and a collective sense of place.
The essays in this volume-by sociologists, historians, ethnomusicologists, and others-explore these questions in ways that are theoretically sophisticated yet readable, making evident the complexities of musical and social phenomena in diaspora and migrant populations. As the opening paragraph of the introduction to the volume observes, ""What remains when people have been scattered apart is a strong urge to gather together, to collect."" At few times in our lives has that ever been more apparent than right now.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jackson
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4968-3236-8 (9781496832368)
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Martha I. Chew Sánchez | David Henderson
Scattered Musics
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03/2021
Princeton University Press
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Persons
Martha I. Chew Sanchez is associate professor and chair of the Caribbean, Latino and Latin American Studies Program at St. Lawrence University. She is author of Corridos in Migrant Memory. Her research and teaching interests are focused on Latino studies, cultural studies, musicology, border studies, ethnic studies, and cultural ecology.
David Henderson is associate professor and chair of the Department of Music at St. Lawrence University. His work has been published in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, and Popular Music and Society, and he is coeditor of Mementos, Artifacts, and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer's Tent.
David Henderson is associate professor and chair of the Department of Music at St. Lawrence University. His work has been published in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, and Popular Music and Society, and he is coeditor of Mementos, Artifacts, and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer's Tent.