Migrating Music
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2011
272 pages
978-1-136-90094-5 (ISBN)
Description
Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on 'world music' questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre - but says relatively little about migration and mobility - diaspora studies have much to say about the latter, yet little about the significance of music.
In this context, this book affirms the centrality of music as a mode of translation and cosmopolitan mediation, whilst also pointing out the complexity of the processes at stake within it. Migrating music, it argues, represents perhaps the most salient mode of performance of otherness to mutual others, and as such its significance in socio-cultural change rivals - and even exceeds - literature, film, and other language and image-based cultural forms.
This book will serve as a valuable reference tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students with research interests in cultural studies, sociology of culture, music, globalization, migration, and human geography.
In this context, this book affirms the centrality of music as a mode of translation and cosmopolitan mediation, whilst also pointing out the complexity of the processes at stake within it. Migrating music, it argues, represents perhaps the most salient mode of performance of otherness to mutual others, and as such its significance in socio-cultural change rivals - and even exceeds - literature, film, and other language and image-based cultural forms.
This book will serve as a valuable reference tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students with research interests in cultural studies, sociology of culture, music, globalization, migration, and human geography.
Reviews / Votes
'This volume about migrant musicians, listeners, and styles is essential reading for students of music and migration...it is especially timely in its focus on a significant sub-section of the discipline...[I]t covers a wide geographical and social range, a variety of styles, and offers an excellent overview of the cross-cultural issues that confront migrant urban musicians.' - Ilana Webster-Kogen, Ethnomusicology, Spring/Summer 2012'To its credit, the volume is even-handed in covering music that resonates across the generations. It's enlightening to learn of what older Afghanis who have fled their wartorn country are tuning into...'-Leonard Nevarez on musicalurbanism.blogspot.co.uk, posted 28 June 2012
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild
1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
File size
2,17 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-90094-5 (9781136900945)
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Jason Toynbee | Byron Dueck
Migrating Music
Book
04/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€71.60
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Jason Toynbee | Byron Dueck
Migrating Music
Book
03/2011
1st Edition
Routledge
€242.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Jason Toynbee is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at The Open University. He does work on copyright and creativity, and ethnicity and the postcolonial condition. Much of his research on those issues focuses on popular music and jazz, as in his books Making Popular Music: Musicians, Institutions and Creativity (Arnold, 2000) and Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? (Polity, 2007).
Byron Dueck is University Fellow in Music at the Open University. His work focuses on the role of musical and embodied experience in constituting public cultures. The majority of his research concerns First Nations and Metis music in western Canada; other interests include Cameroonian popular music and jazz.
Byron Dueck is University Fellow in Music at the Open University. His work focuses on the role of musical and embodied experience in constituting public cultures. The majority of his research concerns First Nations and Metis music in western Canada; other interests include Cameroonian popular music and jazz.
Content
1. Migrating Music Part 1: Migrants Introduction 2. Migrant/Migrating Music and the Mediterranean 3. 'My Own Little Morocco at Home': A Biographical Account of Migration, Mediation and Music Consumption 4. 'Realness': Authenticity, Innovation and Prestige among Young Danseurs Afros in Paris Part 2: Translations Introduction 5. Ridiculing Rap, Funlandizing Finns? Humour and Parody as Strategies of Securing the Ethnic Other in Popular Music 6. Hip-hop Tehran: Migrating Styles, Musical Meanings, Marginalised Voices 7. "Un Homme et Une Femme" Voyage via "Barquinho" to Hollywood and Beyond: Global Circulation, Musical Hybridization, and Adult Modernity, 1961-69 Part 3: Media Introduction 8. What Migrates and Who Does It? A Mini Case Study from Fiji 9. Migrating Music and Good-Enough Cosmopolitanism: Encounter with Robin Denselow and Charlie Gillett 10. Ports of Call: An Ethnographic Analysis of Music Programmes about the Migration of People, Musicians, Genres and Instruments, BBC World Service, 1994-1995 11. Music, Migration and War: the BBC's Interactive Music Broadcasting to Afghanistan and the Afghan Diaspora Part 4: Cities Introduction 12. Cavern Journeys: Music, Migration and Urban Space 13. 'New York Comes to Groningen': Jazz Star Circuits in the Netherlands 14. 'Brown Boys Doing It Like This': Asian Cultural Production and London's Asian Urban Music Scene
