ABSTRACT

This volume brings together for the first time book chapters, articles and position pieces from the debates on music and identity, which seek to answer classic questions such as: how has music shaped the ways in which we understand our identities and those of others? In what ways has scholarly writing about music dealt with identity politics since the Second World War? Both classic and more recent contributions are included, as well as material on related issues such as music's role as a resource in making and performing identities and music scholarship's ambivalent relationship with scholarly activism and identity politics. The essays approach the music-identity relationship from a wide range of methodological perspectives, ranging from critical historiography and archival studies, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality studies, to ethnography and anthropology, and social and cultural theories drawn from sociology; and from continental philosophy and Marxist theories of class to a range of globalization theories. The collection draws on the work of Anglophone scholars from all over the globe, and deals with a wide range of musics and cultures, from the Americas, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This unique collection of key texts, which deal not just with questions of gender, sexuality and race, but also with other socially-mediated identities such as social class, disability, national identity and accounts and analyses of inter-group encounters, is an invaluable resource for music scholars and researchers and those working in any discipline that deals with identity or identity politics.

part I|1 pages

Gender and Sexuality

part II|1 pages

Race

chapter 7|16 pages

Dancing with the Enemy

Cuban Popular Music, Race, Authenticity, and the World-Music Landscape

chapter 8|49 pages

The Yiddish Are Coming

chapter 9|27 pages

“Are You Afraid of the Mix of Black and White?” Hip-hop and the Spectacular Politics of Race

Cuban Popular Music, Race, Authenticity, and the World-Music Landscape

chapter 10|32 pages

Béla Bartók and the Rise of Comparative Ethnomusicology: Nationalism, Race Purity, and the Legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Cuban Popular Music, Race, Authenticity, and the World-Music Landscape

part III|1 pages

Social Identities

chapter 11|26 pages

The Final Borderpost*

chapter 13|28 pages

At the Twilight’s Last Scoring

chapter 14|24 pages

That’s My Blood Down There

chapter 15|51 pages

Losing … My Religion

Music, Disability, Gender, and Jewish and Islamic Law

chapter 18|26 pages

Music and the Global Order

Music, Disability, Gender, and Jewish and Islamic Law