Music on the Move.

• Author: Fosler-Lussier, Danielle.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 pages)

Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music's travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers. Citable link: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9853855

Table of Contents

Part I: Migration -- Chapter 1 Colonialism in Indonesia: Music Moving with an Occupying Force -- Chapter 2 The Romani Diaspora in Europe: Mutual Influences -- Chapter 3 The African Diaspora in the United States: Appropriation and Assimilation -- Part 2: Mediation -- Chapter 4 Sound Recording and the Mediation of Music -- Chapter 5 Music and Media in the Service of the State -- Part 3: Mashup -- Chapter 6 Composing the Mediated Self -- Chapter 7 Copyright, Surveillance, and the Ownership of Music -- Chapter 8 Localizations: Mediated Selves Mixing Musics