Music, national identity and the politics of location : between the global and the local / edited by Ian Biddle and Vanessa Knights.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biddle, Ian D.

Knights, Vanessa.

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Social aspects.

Popular music.

Popular music--Political aspects.

Popular culture.

Music and globalization.

Physical Description:

xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

National identity and music in transition : issues of authenticity in a global setting / John O'Flynn

Where does world music come from? : globalization, Afropop and the question of cultural identity / David Murphy

Voicing risk : migration, transgression and relocation in Spanish/Moroccan raï / Parvati Nair

Banda, a new sound from the barrios of Los Angeles : transmigration and transcultural production / Helena Simonett

Rapping at the margins : musical constructions of identities in contemporary France / Brian George

The quest for national unity in Uyghur popular song : barren chickens, stray dogs, fake immortals and thieves / Joanne Smith

The singer and the mask : voices of Brazil in Antônio Nóbrega's Madeira que cupim não rói / Robin Warner and Regina Nascimento

Popular music, tradition and Serbian nationalism / Robert Hudson

Those Norwegians : deconstructing the nation-state in Europe through fixity and indifference in Norwegian club music / Stan Hawkins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-237) and index.

ISBN:

0754640558

9780754640554

OCLC:

64098505