Globalization of Musics in Transit

<p>This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in different global settings and provides current even new perspectives for ethnomusicological research on globalizing musics in transit. The dual focus on tourism and migration is central to debates on globalization and their examination—separately or combined—offers a useful lens on many key questions about where globalization is taking us: questions about identity and heritage commoditization historical and cultural representation hybridity authenticity and ownership neoliberalism inequality diasporization the relocation of allegiances and more. Moreover for the first time these two key phenomena—tourism and migration—are studied conjointly as well as interdisciplinary in order to derive both parallels and contrasts. While taking diverse perspectives in embracing the contemporary musical landscape the collection offers a range of research methods and theoretical approaches from ethnomusicology anthropology cultural geography sociology popular music studies and media and communication. In so doing Musics in Transit provides a rich exemplification of the ways that all forms of musical culture are becoming transnational under post-global conditions sustained by both global markets and musics in transit and to which both tourists and diasporic cosmopolitans make an important contribution. </p>