1st Edition

Music, Immigration and the City A Transatlantic Dialogue

Edited By Philip Kasinitz, Marco Martiniello Copyright 2019
172 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

This volume brings together the work of social scientists and music scholars examining the role of migrant and migrant descended communities in the production and consumption of popular music in Europe and North America. The contributions to the collection include studies of language and local identity in hip hop in Liege and Montreal; the politics of Mexican folk music in Los Angeles; the... Read more

Introduction: Music, migration and the city

Philip Kasinitz and Marco Martiniello

1. Harlem Calypso and Brooklyn Soca: Caribbean Carnival music in the diaspora

Ray Allen

2. "Immigrants! We get the Job Done!": newcomers remaking America on Broadway

Philip Kasinitz

3. Think global, act Argentine! tango émigrés and the search for artistic authenticity

Anahí Viladrich

4. Music and migration among the Alevi immigrants from Turkey in Germany

Ozan Aksoy

5. Cultural, ethnic and political dimensions of Mediterraneaness in Neapolitan contemporary music: from a discursive transformation in sounds and lyrics to mobilization against Salvini’s Lega

Alessandro Mazzola

6. Franglais in a post-rap world: audible minorities and anxiety about mixing in Québec

Bob W. White

7. How did son jarocho become a music for the immigrant rights movement?

Rubén Hernández-León

8. Music and the political expression and mobilization of second and third-generation immigrants in urban Europe: insights from Liège (Belgium)

Marco Martiniello

Biography

Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of International Migration Studies at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, USA.



Marco Martiniello is Research Director at the FRS-FNRS, Brussels, Belgium, and Director of CEDEM-Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.