Musical Performance in the Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9781138994300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 6 str.

Tina K Ramnarine;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This book examines the place of musical performance in diasporic experience and in diasporic politics. It illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances contributes to the analysis of diaspora.

Spis treści

1. Musical Performance in the Diaspora: introduction. 2. Adieu Madras, Adieu Foulard: Musical Origins and the Doudou’s Colonial Pliant. 3. ‘I take my dombra and sing to remember my homeland’: identity, landscape and music in Kazakh communities of Western Mongolia. 4. "Happy Diwali!" Performance, multicultural soundscapes and intervention in Aotearoa/New Zealand. 5. Diasporic transpositions: indigenous and Jewish performances of mourning in twentieth-century Australia. 6. The Danza de las Cañas: Music, Theatre and Afroperuvian Modernity