Migrating Music

This book raises the issue of music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Much of the existing literature on 'world music' questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre, but says relatively little about migration and mobility. Diaspora studies on the other hand have much to say about these latter dimensions, yet little about the significance of music. In this context the present volume affirms the centrality of music as a mode of translation and cosmopolitan mediation, while also pointing up the complexity of the processes at stake in it. Migrating music, it argues, represents perhaps the most salient mode of performance of otherness to mutual others. As such its significance in socio-cultural change rivals, and even exceeds, literature, film, and other language- and image-based cultural forms.