1st Edition

Musical Performance in the Diaspora

Edited By Tina K Ramnarine Copyright 2008
168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

1. Musical Performance in the Diaspora: introduction (Tina K. Ramnarine, RHUL)

2. Adieu Madras, Adieu Foulard: Musical Origins and the Doudou’s Colonial Pliant (Edwin Hill, UCLA graduate)

3. ‘I take my dombra and sing to remember my homeland’: identity, landscape and music in Kazakh communities of Western Mongolia (Jennifer Post, Middlebury College, USA)

4. "Happy Diwali!" Performance, multicultural soundscapes and intervention in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Henry Johnson, Otago University, New Zealand)

5. Diasporic transpositions: indigenous and Jewish performances of mourning in twentieth-century Australia (Gay Breyley, Monash University, Australia)

6. The Danza de las Cañas: Music, Theatre and Afroperuvian Modernity (Javier F León, University of Texas at Austin)

Biography

Tina K. Ramnarine