| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / David Henderson -- Chapter 1: "An Ireland over There"? Dance Halls and Traditional Music in the Irish Diaspora, 1945-70 / Sara S. Goek -- Chapter 2: Cumbias y Rebajadas: Aurality, Race, and Class in Monterrey's "Colombia" Culture / Juan David Rubio Restrepo -- Chapter 3: Cubatón's Transnational Creolizations William Garcia-Medina -- Chapter 4: Letter to Gautam Gupta Eyvind Kang -- Chapter 5: Connecting Identity: The Rasta Reggae Diaspora in Columbus, Ohio / Ivy Chevers -- Chapter 6: Michie Mee: Rap Music, Cultural Representations, Identity, and the Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto / Athena Elafros -- Chapter 7: Journey to Jah: The Discourse of Internationalization in German Reggae and Dancehall Media / Benjamin Burkhart -- Chapter 8: "We're Called Neck, and We Play Psycho-Ceilídh -- It Goes Something Like This ..." / Gareth Dylan Smith -- Chapter 9: Reworking the Brasilidade Narrative: Dekassegui, Música Sertaneja, and the Performance of Identity in the Japanese Brazilian Expatriate Community / Junko Oba -- Chapter 10: La Música Ranchera in the Reconfiguration of Hispanismo and Mexicanidad in Musical Exchanges between Spain and Mexico / Martha I. Chew Sanchez -- Chapter 11: British Asian Culture and Its Margins in East London / Nilanjana Bhattacharjya -- About the authors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Contributions by Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Benjamin Burkhart, Ivy Chevers, Martha I. Chew Sánchez, Athena Elafros, William García-Medina, Sara Goek, Eyvind Kang, Junko Oba, Juan David Rubio Restrepo, and Gareth Dylan Smith In Scattered Musics, editors Martha I. Chew Sánchez and David Henderson, along with a range of authors from a variety of scholarly backgrounds, consider the musics that diaspora and migrant populations are inspired to create, how musics and musicians travel, and how they change in transit. Its authors cover a lot of ground: cumbia in Mexico, música sertaneja in Japan, hip-hop in Canada, Irish music in the US and the UK, reggae and dancehall in Germany, and more. Diasporic groups transform the musical expressions of their home countries as well as those in their host communities. The studies collected here show how these transformations are ways of grappling with ever-changing patterns of movement. Different diasporas hold their homelands in different regards. Some communities try to recreate home away from home in musical performances, while others use music to critique and redefine their senses of home. Through music, people seek to reconstruct and refine collective memory and a collective sense of place. The essays in this volume-by sociologists, historians, ethnomusicologists, and others-explore these questions in ways that are theoretically sophisticated yet readable making evident the complexities of musical and social phenomena in diaspora and migrant populations. As the opening paragraph of the introduction to the volume observes, "What remains when people have been scattered apart is a strong urge to gather together, to collect." At few times in our lives has that ever been more apparent than right now"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2021) |
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Immigrants -- Music -- History and criticism
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Emigration and immigration -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
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MUSIC / Ethnomusicology
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Emigration and immigration -- Songs and music.
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Music.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chew Sánchez, Martha I., 1969- editor.
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Henderson, David, 1968- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020034663 |
| ISBN |
9781496832405 |
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149683240X |
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9781496832375 |
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149683237X |
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1496832388 |
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9781496832399 |
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1496832396 |
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9781496832382 |
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