Music and Displacement Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond

by Levi, Erik; Scheding, Florian; Beckerman, Michael; Bohlman, Philip V.; Campbell, Sean; Davis, Ruth F.; Heile, Björn; Hirshberg, Jehoash; Hutchinson, Sydney; Paddison, Max; Petersen, Peter; Samson, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780810863798
• ISBN10: 0810863790
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-25
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

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. 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.

Author Biography

Erik Levi is Reader in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, and writes regular reviews for BBC Music Magazine. Florian Scheding is a Research Fellow in Music at the University of Southampton.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Silence of Displacement
ôDas Lied ist ausö: The Final Resting Place along Music's Endless Journey	p. 15
Dimensions of Silencing: On Nazi Anti-Semitism in Musical Displacement	p. 31
Jezek, Zeisl, Améry, and The Exile in the Middle	p. 43
Displacement and Acculturation
The Vision of the East and the Heritage of the West: Displacement as a Catalyst for the Creation of Musical Life in the Jewish Community of Palestine	p. 57
Time, Place, and Memory: Songs for a North African Jewish Pilgrimage	p. 71
Displaced Sounds: Popular Music-Making among the Irish Diaspora in England	p. 89
On Taking Leave: Mahler, Jewishness, and Jazz in Uri Caine's Urlicht/Primal Light	p. 105
Theories and/of Displacement
ôThe Splinter in Your Eyeö: Uncomfortable Legacies and German Exile Studies	p. 119
Adorno and Exile: Some Thoughts on Displacement and What It Means to Be German	p. 135
Places of the Body: Corporal Displacements, Misplacements, and Replacements in Music and Dance Research	p. 155
Little Stories from the Balkans	p. 181
Index	p. 197
About the Contributors	p. 205
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