Musical Performance in the Diaspora

Tina K Ramnarine (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)

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Routledge
10 January 2008

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Music; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Humanities; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides

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.

Edited by: Tina K Ramnarine (Royal Holloway University of London UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415439725
ISBN 10: 0415439728
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 10 January 2008
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"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"

Tina K. Ramnarine