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When Music Migrates - Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945 2010 (Paperback)
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When Music Migrates - Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945 2010 (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that
music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the
post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of
previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized them.
This development, which can be thought of in terms of diaspora, can
also be thought of as postmodern in that it reverses the modern
flow which took colonizers, and sometimes settlers, from European
countries to other places in the world. Stratton explores the
concept of 'song careers', referring to how a song is picked up and
then transformed by being revisioned by different artists and in
different cultural contexts. The idea of the song career extends
the descriptive term 'cover' in order to examine the
transformations a song undergoes from artist to artist and cultural
context to cultural context. Stratton focuses on the British
faultline between the post-war African-Caribbean settlers and the
white Britons. Central to the book is the question of identity. For
example, how African-Caribbean people have constructed their
identity in Britain can be considered through an examination of
when 'Police on My Back' was written and how it has been revisioned
by Lethal Bizzle in its most recent iteration. At the same time,
this song, written by the Guyanese migrant Eddy Grant for his
mixed-race group The Equals, crossed the racial faultline when it
was picked up by the punk-rock group, The Clash. Conversely,
'Johnny Reggae', originally a pop-ska track written about a
skinhead by Jonathan King and performed by a group of studio
artists whom King named The Piglets, was revisioned by a Jamaican
studio group called The Roosevelt Singers. After this, the
character of Johnny Reggae takes on a life of his own and appears
in tracks by Jamaican toasters as a Rastafarian. Johnny's identity
is, then, totally transformed. It is this migration of music that
will appeal not only to those studying popular music, but
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