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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no addition copies available on-line currently. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial card-stock wraps. From the publisher's blurb, "Those that fly without wings is a study concentrating on the practice of music and dance within a Chilean immigrant community in Oslo. It is a qualitative and interpretive account of how music activity plays a part in the negotiation and construction of immigrant identity, as well as how it gives a voice to tensions and contradictions within an immigrant group in an urban landscape. The study concerns a community with a considerable musical activity of various Latin American genres, taking place in public as well as private arenas. By engaging with both historical and present discourses in the community, complex processes of adaptation, redefinition and reconstruction are addressed. Based on field research and interviews as well as song lyrics and poetry, the study examines various ways in which a group of people with an active and committed relationship to music make their practices meaningful in this particular social setting.Music activity in everyday life is understood as an essential part of the maintenance of the immigrant community as a distinct social entity. The study argues that immigrant culture is intimately connected to social needs of the present and should not be regarded primarily as a way of maintaining links to ?roots? and ?tradition? It also challenges prevailing notions of immigrant music as a tool for creating multicultural understanding and bridging ethnic barriers. This is done by demonstrating how music styles and practices can attain a strong symbolic significance which contributes to the construction of notions of difference and otherness." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. vii [1], 1-234 pp. plus another ten pages of other publisher titles.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…