Musical Performance in the Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor Tina K. Ramnarine Klappentext Examines the place of musical performance in diasporic experience and in diasporic politics. This book illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances contributes to the analysis of diaspora. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Tina K Ramnarine
• Assisted by: Tina K Ramnarine (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2008
• EAN: 9780415439725
• ISBN: 978-0-415-43972-5
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Ethnic Studies, History, Popular Culture, MUSIC / General, The arts: general issues, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, Humanities, Performance Art, Black & Asian Studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, Art music, orchestral and formal music, The arts: general topics, Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"