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Cultural Globalization and Music
African Artists in Transnational Networks
ISBN/EAN: 9780230221291
Umbreit-Nr.: 9054203
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: x, 273 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 05.04.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
- Zusatztext
- This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural, and civil society milieus of globalizing societies.
- Kurztext
- Looks at migration through music and musiciansFocuses on motivations of artists 'on the move' Looks at relations between Africa and EuropeExplores links between cultural practitioners and civil societyShows the impact of artists on cultural, social, political and ecological factors within countries of settlement and origin
- Autorenportrait
- NADIA KIWAN Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK and author of Identities, Discourses and Experiences: Young People of North African Origin in France. Her research interests include migration, identity, new social movements, and new forms of migrant cultural production and citizenship. ULRIKE MEINHOF Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. She has directed ESRC, AHRC and EU-funded research into EU border identities, cultural policy in metropolitan cities, networks and neighbourhoods in provincial regions in Europe, and transnational networks of musicians from Africa