Contributions by Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Benjamin Burkhart, Ivy
Chevers, Martha I. Chew Sanchez, Athena Elafros, William
Garcia-Medina, Sara Goek, Eyvind Kang, Junko Oba, Juan David Rubio
Restrepo, and Gareth Dylan Smith In Scattered Musics, editors
Martha I. Chew Sanchez and David Henderson, along with a range of
authors from a variety of scholarly backgrounds, consider the
musics that diaspora and migrant populations are inspired to
create, how musics and musicians travel, and how they change in
transit. The authors cover a lot of ground: cumbia in Mexico,
musica sertaneja in Japan, hip-hop in Canada, Irish music in the US
and the UK, reggae and dancehall in Germany, and more. Diasporic
groups transform the musical expressions of their home countries as
well as those in their host communities. The studies collected here
show how these transformations are ways of grappling with
ever-changing patterns of movement. Different diasporas hold their
homelands in different regards. Some communities try to recreate
home away from home in musical performances, while others use music
to critique and redefine their senses of home. Through music,
people seek to reconstruct and refine collective memory and a
collective sense of place. The essays in this volume-by
sociologists, historians, ethnomusicologists, and others-explore
these questions in ways that are theoretically sophisticated yet
readable, making evident the complexities of musical and social
phenomena in diaspora and migrant populations. As the opening
paragraph of the introduction to the volume observes, ""What
remains when people have been scattered apart is a strong urge to
gather together, to collect."" At few times in our lives has that
ever been more apparent than right now.
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