Migrating Music

Jason Toynbee is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at The Open University. He does work on copyright and creativity, and ethnicity and the postcolonial condition. Much of his research on those issues focuses on popular music and jazz, as in his books Making Popular Music: Musicians, Institutions and Creativity (Arnold, 2000) and Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? (Polity, 2007).Byron Dueck is University Fellow in Music at the Open University. His work focuses on the role of musical and embodied experience in constituting public cultures. The majority of his research concerns First Nations and Métis music in western Canada; other interests include Cameroonian popular music and jazz.

'This volume about migrant musicians, listeners, and styles is essential reading for students of music and migration...it is especially timely in its focus on a significant sub-section of the discipline...[I]t covers a wide geographical and social range, a variety of styles, and offers an excellent overview of the cross-cultural issues that confront migrant urban musicians.' - Ilana Webster-Kogen, Ethnomusicology, Spring/Summer 2012 'To its credit, the volume is even-handed in covering music that resonates across the generations. It's enlightening to learn of what older Afghanis who have fled their wartorn country are tuning into...'-Leonard Nevarez on musicalurbanism.blogspot.co.uk, posted 28 June 2012

• 1. Migrating Music Part 1: Migrants Introduction 2. Migrant/Migrating Music and the Mediterranean 3. ‘My Own Little Morocco at Home’: A Biographical Account of Migration, Mediation and Music Consumption 4. ‘Realness’: Authenticity, Innovation and Prestige among Young Danseurs Afros in Paris Part 2: Translations Introduction 5. Ridiculing Rap, Funlandizing Finns? Humour and Parody as Strategies of Securing the Ethnic Other in Popular Music 6. Hip-hop Tehran: Migrating Styles, Musical Meanings, Marginalised Voices 7. "Un Homme et Une Femme" Voyage via "Barquinho" to Hollywood and Beyond: Global Circulation, Musical Hybridization, and Adult Modernity, 1961-69 Part 3: Media Introduction 8. What Migrates and Who Does It? A Mini Case Study from Fiji 9. Migrating Music and Good-Enough Cosmopolitanism: Encounter with Robin Denselow and Charlie Gillett 10. Ports of Call: An Ethnographic Analysis of Music Programmes about the Migration of People, Musicians, Genres and Instruments, BBC World Service, 1994-1995 11. Music, Migration and War: the BBC’s Interactive Music Broadcasting to Afghanistan and the Afghan Diaspora Part 4: Cities Introduction 12. Cavern Journeys: Music, Migration and Urban Space 13. ‘New York Comes to Groningen’: Jazz Star Circuits in the Netherlands 14. ‘Brown Boys Doing It Like This’: Asian Cultural Production and London’s Asian Urban Music Scene