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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461340603321

Titolo

Migrating music / / edited by Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-10569-1

9786613105691

1-136-90094-2

0-203-84175-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Culture, economy and the social

Altri autori (Persone)

DueckByron

ToynbeeJason

Disciplina

780.89

Soggetti

Globalization - Social aspects

Music

Ethnomusicology

Cosmopolitanism

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Migrating music / Jason Toynbee -- Migrants -- Migrant/migrating music and the Mediterranean / Martin Stokes -- "My own little Morocco at home" : a biographical account of migration, mediation, and music consumption / Carolyn Landau -- "Realness" : authenticity, innovation, and prestige among young danseurs Afros in Paris / Laura Steil -- Translations -- Ridiculing rap, funlandizing Finns? : humour and parody as strategies of securing the ethnic other in popular music / Antti-Ville Kärjä -- Hip-hop Tehran : migrating styles, musical meanings, marginalised voices / Laudan Nooshin -- "Un homme et une femme" : voyage via "Barquinho" to Hollywood and beyond : global circulation, musical hybridization, and adult modernity, 1961-69 / Keir Keightley -- Media -- What migrates and who does it? : a mini case study from Fiji / Ruth Finnegan -- Migrating music and good-enough cosmopolitanism : encounter with Robin Denselow and Charlie Gillett /



Kevin Robins -- Ports of call : an ethnographic analysis of music programmes about the migration of people, musicians, genres and instruments, BBC World Service, 1994-1995 / Jan Fairley -- Music, migration, and war : the BBC's interactive music broadcasting to Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora / John Baily, Goldsmiths -- Cities -- Cavern journeys : music, migration and urban space / Sara Cohen -- "New York comes to Groningen" : jazz star circuits in the Netherlands / Kristin McGee -- "Brown boys doing it like this" : Asian cultural production and London's Asian urban music scene / Helen Kim.

Sommario/riassunto

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, represe