Music, Popular Culture, Identities is a collection of sixteen essays that will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in popular culture and music, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Organized around the central theme of music as an expression of local, ethnic, social and other identities, the essays touch upon popular traditions and contemporary forms from several different regions of the world: political engagement in Italian popular music; flamenco in Spain; the challenge of traditional music in Bulgaria; boerenrock and rap in Holland; Israeli extreme heavy metal; jazz and pop in South Africa, and musical hybridity and politics in Cote d’Ivoire. The collection includes essays about Latin America: on the Mexican corrido, the Caribbean, popular dance music in Cuba, and bossanova from Brazil. Communities of a cultural diaspora in North America are discussed in essays on Somali immigrant and refugee youth and Iranians in exile in the US. Grounded in cultural theory and a specialized knowledge of a particular popular musical practice, each author has written a critical study on the mix of music and identity in a particular social practice and context.
Author(s): Richard Young
Series: Critical Studies 19
Publisher: Rodopi
Year: 2002
Language: English
Commentary: e-ink optimized
Pages: 360
City: Amsterdam
Tags: musicpopularcult0000unse
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Contents
Richard Young: Introduction
William Anselmi: From cantautori to posse: Sociopolitical Discourse, Engagement and Antagonism in the Italian Music Scene from the 60s to the 90s
Daniel E Chamberlain: El corrido: Identity, Narrative, and Central Frontiers
John Charles Chasteen: A National Rhythm: Social Dance and Elite Identity in Nineteenth-Century Havana
Catherine Den Tandt: Globalization and Identity: The Discourse of Popular Music in the Caribbean
Murray Forman: “Keeping it Real”?: African Youth Identities, and Hip Hop
Keith Kahn-Harris: “T hate this fucking country”: Dealing with the Global and the Local in the Israeli Extreme Metal Scene
Henry Klumpenhouwer: The Idiocy of Rural Life: Boerenrock, the Rural Debate and the Uses of Identity
Adam Krims: Rap, Race, the “Local,” and Urban Geography in Amsterdam
George Lang: Cannibalizing Bossa Nova
Claire Levy: Who is the “Other” in the Balkans? Local Ethnic Music as a Different Source of Identities in Bulgaria
Lisa McNee: Back From Babylon: Popular Musical Cultures of the Diaspora, Youth Culture and Identity in Francophone West Africa
Hamid Naficy: Identity Politics and Iranian Exile Music Videos
Parvati Nair: Vocal In-roads: Flamenco, Orality and Postmodernity in Las 3000 Viviendas, Viejo Patio (Dulcimer and EMI, 1999)
Viviana Rangil: Selena: Two Complementary Cinematographic Interpretations
Michael Frank Titlestad: “The artist gathers the bones”: The Shamanic Poetics of Jazz Discourse
Stella Viljoen: En Route to the Rainbow Nation: South African Voices of Resistance
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