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Musical Performance in the Diaspora - Softcover

 
9781138994300: Musical Performance in the Diaspora
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138994308 ISBN 13: 9781138994300
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This book illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances might contribute to the analysis of diaspora. It embraces diverse examples such as 'mourning and cultures of survival' amongst Aboriginal and Jewish communities in Australia, remembering a Kazakh 'homeland' in Western Mongolia, celebrating Diwali in New Zealand and the circulation of musical performances in Mozambique, Portugal and the UK. Some of the topics discussed in Musical Performance in the Diaspora include:

  • the expression and shaping of diasporic and postcolonial identities through performance
  • musical memory in diasporic contexts
  • the geographies of performance
  • the politics of 'new' forms of diasporic music-making.

This book presents a rich array of theoretical approaches and wide ranging ethnographic case studies to reconsider and challenge discourses that have favoured uncritical notions of diasporic 'hybridity' and to broaden current analyses of performance in the diaspora.

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About the Author

Tina K. Ramnarine

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138994308
ISBN 13 
9781138994300
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
168
Editor
Ramnarine Tina K