Transglobal Sounds: Music, Youth and Migration

by João Sardinha (Editor), Ricardo Campos (Editor)

Overview

Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration and music, the aesthetic intersections between the local and the global, and between agency and identity, are presented through case studies in this book. Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus, through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between, this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between music and young migrants and migrant descendants' everyday lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501340208
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/22/2018
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

João Sardinha is a researcher at IGOT (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning), Center for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Ricardo Campos is a researcher at CICS-Nova (Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Transglobal Sounds
João Sardinha and Ricardo Campos

Part I: Music, mobilities and processes of being

Chapter 1: Afro-mandinga in Lisbon: griots and the (en)chantment of the past
Carolina Carret Höfs

Chapter 2: From Coimbra to London: to live the punk dream with my tribe
Paula Guerra and Pedro Quintela

Part II: Hibridism and aesthetic creativity

Chapter 3: 'More than pets of multiculturalism': Diasporic hybridity in Icelandic popular music – The case of Retro Stefson
Gestur Guðmundsson and Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen

Chapter 4: Popular Music and Generational Dynamics of Immigration in 'Postcolonial Finland' – the Case of Ourvision Singing Contest 2009
Antti-Ville Kärjä

Chapter 5:Nanyin and the Singaporean culture: The creation of intangible cultural heritage in Singapore and intergenerational contrasts
Fushiki Kaori

Part III: Identity politics and negotiations

Chapter 6: Protest rap and young Afro-descendants in Portugal
Ricardo Campos, Pedro Nunes and José Alberto Simões

Chapter 7: Music: a tool for socio-political participation among descendants of immigrants in Buenos Aires and Bilbao?
Natália Gavazzo, Sónia Pereira and Ana Estevens

Chapter 8: 'Ich fühle mich Deutsch': Migrant Descendants' Performance of Integration through the Hamburg HipHop Academy
Emily Joy Rothchild

Part IV: Connecting sounds and ancestral homelands

Chapter 9: 'Portugal dos Xutos': Portuguese music in the lives of “returbaned” descendants of Portuguese emigrants from Canada
João Sardinha

Chapter 10: Drawing a homeland on the staff: Music of Turkey in Berlin
Pinar Guran

Conclusion:Understanding acoustic performativities, youth subjectivities and mobile identities
Anastasia Christou, João Sardinha, Ricardo Campos

Editorial Reviews

Transglobal Sounds is an exciting volume that focuses on an important demographic slice of the migrant pie - youth, and the particular importance of music in addressing the challenges of deterritorialization and return.
Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Rutgers University, USA

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