Migrating Music

by Jason Toynbee (Editor)

Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: OCyworldOCO music, hip hop, bossa nova ... . With case studies from across the world this ground-breaking collection shows how migrating music is key to the construction of a still-emerging, global cosmopolitan imagination."

Genres: Music

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First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Jason Toynbee is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at The Open University, UK. His research focuses on creativity and ethnicity in music. Jason’s most recent books are Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? (2007), and as co-editor Migrating Music (2011 with Byron Dueck). He led the AHRC funded research project ’What Is Black British Jazz?’ at The Open University.

Reviews

[Mills College Library]

780.89 M6362 2012