Music Immigration And The City

Author : Philip Kasinitz,Marco Martiniello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000448962

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Music, Immigration and the City by Philip Kasinitz,Marco Martiniello Pdf

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 remaking of ethnic boundaries in Naples; the changing meanings of Tango in the Argentine diaspora and of Alevi music among Turks in Germany; the history of Soca in Brooklyn; and the recreation of ‘American’ culture by the children of immigrants on the Broadway stage. Taken together, these works demonstrate how music affords us a window onto local culture, social relations and community politics in the diverse cities of immigrant receiving societies. Music is often one of the first arenas in which populations encounter newcomers, a place where ideas about identity can be reformulated and reimagined, and a field in which innovation and hybridity are often highly valued. This book highlights why it is a subject worthy of more attention from students of racial and ethnic relations in diverse societies. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Ellen Karp
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781772823530

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Many are strong among the strangers by Ellen Karp Pdf

A compilation of thirty-four songs of differing ethnicity from the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies folklore collections. The songs are presented in their original language with English translation.

Author : Samuel K. Byrd
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479860425

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The Sounds of Latinidad by Samuel K. Byrd Pdf

Charlotte, a globalizing city -- The latin music scene in Charlotte -- Bands making musical communities -- Thursday is Bakalao's day! : bands at work and play -- The collective circle : music and ambivalent politics in Charlotte -- Shifting urban genres -- Race and the expanding borderlands condition -- The festival : marketing latinidad -- Musicians' ethics and aesthetics.

Author : Sara Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351218405

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Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles by Sara Cohen Pdf

How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city, and how have connections between the Beatles and Liverpool been forged and contested? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. Firstly, it examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly, and in turn, it considers the specificity of popular music culture and the many diverse ways in which it influences city life and informs the way that the city is thought about, valued and experienced. Cohen highlights popular music's unique role and significance in the making of cities, and illustrates how de-industrialization encouraged efforts to connect popular music to the city, to categorize, claim and promote it as local culture, and harness and mobilize it as a local resource. In doing so she adopts an approach that recognizes music as a social and symbolic practice encompassing a diversity of roles and characteristics: music as a culture or way of life distinguished by social and ideological conventions; music as sound; speech and discourse about music; and music as a commodity and industry.

Author : Jason Toynbee,Byron Dueck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136900945

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Migrating Music by Jason Toynbee,Byron Dueck Pdf

Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: 'world' 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.

Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher : Creston Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781954354227

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Irving Berlin by Nancy Churnin Pdf

Irving Berlin came to the United States as a refugee from Tsarist Russia, escaping a pogrom that destroyed his village. Growing up on the streets of the lower East Side, the rhythms of jazz and blues inspired his own song-writing career. Starting with his first big hit, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Berlin created the soundtrack for American life with his catchy tunes and irresistible lyrics. With "God Bless America," he sang his thanks to the country which had given him a home and a chance to express his creative vision.

Author : Steven M. Alper
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573632723

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The Immigrant by Steven M. Alper Pdf

Author : Alex E. Chávez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372202

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Sounds of Crossing by Alex E. Chávez Pdf

In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within the lives of audiences, musicians, and himself—from New Year's festivities in the highlands of Guanajuato, Mexico, to backyard get-togethers along the back roads of central Texas—Chávez shows how Mexicans living on both sides of the border use expressive culture to construct meaningful communities amid the United States’ often vitriolic immigration politics. Through Chávez's writing, we gain an intimate look at the experience of migration and how huapango carries the voices of those in Mexico, those undertaking the dangerous trek across the border, and those living in the United States. Illuminating how huapango arribeño’s performance refigures the sociopolitical and economic terms of migration through aesthetic means, Chávez adds fresh and compelling insights into the ways transnational music-making is at the center of everyday Mexican migrant life.

Author : Shane Homan,Catherine Strong,Seamus O'Hanlon,John Tebbutt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040031148

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Interrogating Popular Music and the City by Shane Homan,Catherine Strong,Seamus O'Hanlon,John Tebbutt Pdf

How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Music and cities have been partners in an often clumsy, sometimes accidental but always exciting dance. Heritage and immigration, noise and art, policy and politics are some of the topics that are addressed in this critical examination of relationships between cities and music. The book draws upon an international array of researchers, encompassing hip hop in Beijing; the city favelas of Brazil; from Melbourne bars to European parliaments; to heritage and tourism debates in Salzburg and Manchester. In doing so, it interrogates the different agendas of audiences, musicians and policy-makers in distinct urban settings.

Author : Alexei Eremine,, Ana Fernandes Ngom,Bart Vanspauwen,Carla Soares Barbosa,Carlos Martins,Dan Lundberg,Dieter Christensen,Godelieve Meersschaert,Gustavo Roriz,Isabel Elvas,J.A. Fernandes Dias,Jean-Michel Lafleur, João Jorge,John Baily,Jorge Castro Ribeiro, Jorge de La Barre,Jorge Murteira,Júlio Leitão,Lídia Fernandes,Luisiane Ramalho,Mafalda Silva Rego,Marcello Sorce-Keller,Marco Martiniello,Maria da Luz Fragoso Costa,Maria de São José Côrte-Real,Mark Naison,Miguel Magalhães,Paula Nascimento,Sílvia Martinez,Susana Sardo,Ursula Hemetek
Publisher : ACIDI, I.P.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Music and Migration by Alexei Eremine,, Ana Fernandes Ngom,Bart Vanspauwen,Carla Soares Barbosa,Carlos Martins,Dan Lundberg,Dieter Christensen,Godelieve Meersschaert,Gustavo Roriz,Isabel Elvas,J.A. Fernandes Dias,Jean-Michel Lafleur, João Jorge,John Baily,Jorge Castro Ribeiro, Jorge de La Barre,Jorge Murteira,Júlio Leitão,Lídia Fernandes,Luisiane Ramalho,Mafalda Silva Rego,Marcello Sorce-Keller,Marco Martiniello,Maria da Luz Fragoso Costa,Maria de São José Côrte-Real,Mark Naison,Miguel Magalhães,Paula Nascimento,Sílvia Martinez,Susana Sardo,Ursula Hemetek Pdf

Following the format of the journal, the texts, in three parts, testify musical experience in different representations, from elementary school practices to music festivals and resident chamber music, mentioning categories accepted in the Portuguese society, among others, referring to the popular, folk/world and art music.

Author : Denis Crowdy,Bev Diamond,Daniel Downes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527561274

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Post-Colonial Distances by Denis Crowdy,Bev Diamond,Daniel Downes Pdf

This anthology emanated from a conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland, that brought together popular music scholars, folklorists and ethnomusicologists from Canada and Australia. Implicit in that conference and in this anthology is the comparability of the two countries. Their ‘post-colonial’ status (if that is indeed an appropriate modifier in either case) has some points of similarity. On the other hand, their ‘distance’ – from hegemonic centres, from colonial histories – is arguably more a matter of contrast than similarity. Canada and Australia are similar in various regards. Post-colonial in the sense that they are both former British colonies, they now each have more than a century of stature as nation states. By the beginning of the 21st century, they are each modest in size but rich in ethnocultural diversity. Nonetheless, each country has some skeletons in the closet where openness to difference, to indigenous and new immigrant groups are concerned. Both countries are similarly both experiencing rapid shifts in cultural makeup with the biggest population increases in Australia coming from China, India, and South Africa, and the biggest in Canada from Afro-Caribbean, South Asian countries, and China. The chapters in this anthology constitute an important comparative initiative. Perhaps the most obvious point of comparison is that both countries create commercial music in the shadow of the hegemonic US and British industries. As the authors demonstrate, both proximity (specifically Canada’s nearness to the US) and distance have advantages and disadvantages. As the third and fourth largest Anglophone music markets for popular music, they face similar issues relating to music management, performance markets, and production. A second relationship, as chapters in this anthology attest, is the significant movement between the two countries in a matrix of exchange and influence among musicians that has rarely been studied hitherto. Third, both countries invite comparison with regard to the popular music production of diverse social groups within their national populations. In particular, the tremendous growth of indigenous popular music has resulted in opportunities as well as challenges. Additionally, however, the strategies that different waves of immigrants have adopted to devise or localize popular music that was both competitive and meaningful to their own people as well as to a larger demographic bear comparison. The historical similarities and differences as well as the global positionality of each country in the early 21st century, then, invites comparison relating to musical practices, social organization, lyrics as they articulate social issues, career strategies, industry structures and listeners.

Author : Orest T. Martynowych
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554728

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The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause by Orest T. Martynowych Pdf

A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian immigrants sustain their identity. His feature-length Ukrainian language films made in the 1930s with Hollywood director Edgar G. Ulmer, the “king of ethnic and B movies,” were shown throughout North America. Orest T. Martynowych’s The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause is a fascinating portrait how culture can become a political tool in a diaspora community.

Author : David Bezmozgis
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443457804

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Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Award-winning author David Bezmozgis’s first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the Toronto Star as “intelligent, funny, unfailingly sympathetic” In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A mysterious tech conference brings a writer to Montreal, where he discovers new designs on the past in “How It Used to Be.” A grandfather’s Yiddish letters expose a love affair and a wartime secret in “Little Rooster.” In “Childhood,” Mark’s concern about his son’s phobias evokes a shameful incident from his own adolescence. In “Roman’s Song,” Roman’s desire to help a new immigrant brings him into contact with a sordid underworld. At his father’s request, Victor returns to Riga, the city of his birth, where his loyalties are tested by the man he might have been in “A New Gravestone for an Old Grave.” And, in the noir-inspired “The Russian Riviera,” Kostya leaves Russia to pursue a boxing career only to find himself working as a doorman in a garish nightclub in the Toronto suburbs. In these deeply felt, slyly humorous stories, Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts.

Author : Mauricio Rodríguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429833717

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Musicians' Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands by Mauricio Rodríguez Pdf

Musicians’ Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands considers the works and ideologies of an array of American-based, immigrant Mexican musicians. It asserts their immigrant status as a central force in nourishing, informing, and propelling musical and artistic concerns, uncovering pure and fresh forms of expression that broaden the multicultural map of Mexico. The text guides readers in appreciation of the aesthetic and technical achievements of original works and innovative performances, with artistic and pedagogical implications that frame a vivid picture of the contemporary Mexican as immigrant creator in the United States. The ongoing displacement of Mexicans into the United States impacts not only American economic conditions but the country’s social, cultural, and intellectual configurations as well. Artistic and academic voices shape and enrich the multicultural diversity of both countries, as immigrant Mexican artists and their musics prove instrumental to the forming of a self-critical society compelled to value and embrace its diversity. Despite conflicting political reactions on this complex subject of legal and illegal immigration, undeniable is the influence of Mexican musical expressions in the United States and Mexico, at the border and beyond.

Author : Michael Haas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300154313

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Forbidden Music by Michael Haas Pdf

DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div