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Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Contributor(s): Levi, Erik (Editor), Scheding, Florian (Editor), Beckerman, Michael (Contribution by)
ISBN: 0810863790     ISBN-13: 9780810863798
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
OUR PRICE:   $126.35  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Ethnomusicology
- Music | History & Criticism - General
- Music | Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional
Dewey: 780.9
LCCN: 2009047771
Series: Europea: Ethnomusicoligies and Modernities
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 216 pages
 
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The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms. Contributions by distinguished international scholars address the theme through a wide range of case studies, incorporating art, popular, folk, and jazz music and interacting with areas, such as gender and post-colonial studies, critical theory, migration, and diaspora. The book is structured in three stages--silence, acculturation, and theory--that move from silence to sound and from displacement to placement. The range of subject matter within these sections is deliberately hybrid and mirrors the eclectic nature of displacement itself, with case studies exploring Nazi Anti-Semitism in musical displacement; musical life in the Jewish community of Palestine; Mahler, Jewishness, and Jazz; the Irish Diaspora in England; and German Exile studies, among others. Featuring articles from such scholars as Ruth F. Davis, Sean Campbell, Jim Samson, Sydney Hutchinson, and Europea series co-editor Philip V. Bohlman, the volume exerts an appeal reaching beyond music and musicology to embrace all areas in the humanities concerned with notions of displacement, migration, and diaspora.