ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |51 pages
Migrants
chapter |17 pages
‘My own little Morocco at home'
chapter |15 pages
‘Realness'
part |56 pages
Translations
chapter |14 pages
Ridiculing rap, funlandizing Finns?
chapter |15 pages
Un voyage via barquinho …
part |68 pages
Media
chapter |15 pages
Migrating music and good-enough cosmopolitanism
chapter |15 pages
Ports of Call
chapter |15 pages
Music, migration and war
part |56 pages
Cities