Music and Displacement

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas Mobilities and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms. Contributions by distinguished international scholars address the theme through a wide range of case studies incorporating art popular folk and jazz music and interacting with areas such as gender and post-colonial studies critical theory migration and diaspora.<BR /><br>The book is structured in three stages—silence acculturation and theory—that move from silence to sound and from displacement to placement. The range of subject matter within these sections is deliberately hybrid and mirrors the eclectic nature of displacement itself with case studies exploring Nazi Anti-Semitism in musical displacement; musical life in the Jewish community of Palestine; Mahler Jewishness and Jazz; the Irish Diaspora in England; and German Exile studies among others. Featuring articles from such scholars as Ruth F. Davis Sean Campbell Jim Samson Sydney Hutchinson and Europea series co-editor Philip V. Bohlman the volume exerts an appeal reaching beyond music and musicology to embrace all areas in the humanities concerned with notions of displacement migration and diaspora.<BR />