Migrating Music by Jason Toynbee

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Migrating Music by Jason Toynbee

Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: 'world' music, hip hop, bossa nova ... . With case studies from across the world this ground-breaking collection shows how migrating music is key to the construction of a still-emerging, global cosmopolitan imagination.

'A welcome addition to the literature on music, mediation and diaspora..'

'Many of the contributions to this volume have a strong sense of immediacy and engagement with their material, and with the wider political context. Toynbee and Dueck are not shy of contributing to current political debates, and they highlight European anxieties over immigration, exacerbated by economic hardship and fears that migrants are transforming the wider national culture.'-Rachel Harris, Univeristy of London, in Ethnomusicology Forum, vol 21 no 1 p.117-119

Jason Toynbee is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at The Open University. He does work on copyright and creativity, and ethnicity and the postcolonial condition. Much of his research on those issues focuses on popular music and jazz, as in his books Making Popular Music: Musicians, Institutions and Creativity (Arnold, 2000) and Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? (Polity, 2007). Byron Dueck is University Fellow in Music at the Open University. His work focuses on the role of musical and embodied experience in constituting public cultures. The majority of his research concerns First Nations and Métis music in western Canada; other interests include Cameroonian popular music and jazz.
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ISBN 13 9780415633598
ISBN 10 0415633591
Title Migrating Music
Author Jason Toynbee
Series Cresc
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2012-04-23
Number of pages 272
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