Full Description
Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic intersections between the local and the global, and between agency and identity, are presented through case studies in this book. Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus, through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between, this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between music and young migrants and migrant descendant's everyday lives.
Contents
Introduction: Transglobal Sounds
João Sardinha and Ricardo Campos
Part I: Music, mobilities and processes of being
Chapter 1: Afro-mandinga in Lisbon: griots and the (en)chantment of the past
Carolina Carret Höfs
Chapter 2: From Coimbra to London: to live the punk dream with my tribe
Paula Guerra and Pedro Quintela
Part II: Hibridism and aesthetic creativity
Chapter 3: 'More than pets of multiculturalism': Diasporic hybridity in Icelandic popular music - The case of Retro Stefson
Gestur Guðmundsson and Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen
Chapter 4: Popular Music and Generational Dynamics of Immigration in 'Postcolonial Finland' - the Case of Ourvision Singing Contest 2009
Antti-Ville Kärjä
Chapter 5:Nanyin and the Singaporean culture: The creation of intangible cultural heritage in Singapore and intergenerational contrasts
Fushiki Kaori
Part III: Identity politics and negotiations
Chapter 6: Protest rap and young Afro-descendants in Portugal
Ricardo Campos, Pedro Nunes and José Alberto Simões
Chapter 7: Music: a tool for socio-political participation among descendants of immigrants in Buenos Aires and Bilbao?
Natália Gavazzo, Sónia Pereira and Ana Estevens
Chapter 8: 'Ich fühle mich Deutsch': Migrant Descendants' Performance of Integration through the Hamburg HipHop Academy
Emily Joy Rothchild
Part IV: Connecting sounds and ancestral homelands
Chapter 9: 'Portugal dos Xutos': Portuguese music in the lives of "returned" descendants of Portuguese emigrants from Canada
João Sardinha
Chapter 10: Drawing a homeland on the staff: Music of Turkey in Berlin
Pinar Guran
Conclusion:Understanding acoustic performativities, youth subjectivities and mobile identities
Anastasia Christou, João Sardinha, Ricardo Campos
