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: 9780810872950
• ISBN10: 0810872951
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• 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. As a pioneering volume in the Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities series, Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond fills this gap as it explores the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms. Distinguished international scholars contribute 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.

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
"Das Lied ist aus": The Final Resting Place along Music's Endless Journey	p. 15
Dimensions of Silencing: On Nazi Anti-Semitism in Musical Displacement	p. 31
Ježek	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
"The Splinter in Your Eye": 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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