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Title Music and displacement : diasporas, mobilities, and dislocations in Europe and beyond / edited by Erik Levi and Florian Scheding
Published Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 207 p.)
Series Europea ; no. 10
Europea ; no. 10.
Contents The silence of displacement. "Das Lied ist aus" : The final resting place along music's endless journey / Philip V. Bohlman ; Dimensions of silencing : On Nazi anti-semitism in musical displacement / Peter Petersen ; Jez̆ek, Zeisl, Améry, and the exile in the middle / Michael Beckerman -- Displacement and acculturation. The vision of the east and the heritage of the west : Displacement as a catalyst for the creation of musical life in the Jewish community of Palestine / Jehoash Hirshberg ; Time, place, and memory : Songs for a North African Jewish pilgrimage / Ruth F. Davis ; Displaced sounds : Popular music-making among the Irish diaspora in England / Sean Campbell ; On taking leave : Mahler, Jewishness, and jazz in Uri Caine's Urlicht/Primal light / Björn Heile -- Theories and/of displacement. "The splinter in your eye" : Uncomfortable legacies and German exile studies / Florian Scheding ; Adorno and exile : Some thoughts on displacement and what it means to be German / Max Paddison ; Places of the body : Corporal displacements, misplacements, and replacements in music and dance research / Sydney Hutchinson ; Little stories from the Balkans / Jim Samson
Summary Music and Displacement offers an exploration of the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms; a broadening of the remit of displacement and diaspora beyond Western art music; and a consideration of the topic within the contexts of music's socio-historical and philosophical circumstances, and to geographic and cultural pasts and presents
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Music -- History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
Emigration and immigration -- Songs and music.
Music.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Levi, Erik
Scheding, Florian, 1976-
LC no. 2021679362
ISBN 9780810874107
0810874105
9786613912701
6613912700
1283600250
9781283600255