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Book SynopsisMusic, Popular Culture, Identities is a collection of sixteen essays that will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in popular culture and music, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Organized around the central theme of music as an expression of local, ethnic, social and other identities, the essays touch upon popular traditions and contemporary forms from several different regions of the world: political engagement in Italian popular music; flamenco in Spain; the challenge of traditional music in Bulgaria; boerenrock and rap in Holland; Israeli extreme heavy metal; jazz and pop in South Africa, and musical hybridity and politics in Côte d’Ivoire. The collection includes essays about Latin America: on the Mexican corrido, the Caribbean, popular dance music in Cuba, and bossanova from Brazil. Communities of a cultural diaspora in North America are discussed in essays on Somali immigrant and refugee youth and Iranians in exile in the US. Grounded in cultural theory and a specialized knowledge of a particular popular musical practice, each author has written a critical study on the mix of music and identity in a particular social practice and context.
Table of ContentsRichard YOUNG: Introduction. William ANSELMI: From cantautori to posse: Sociopolitical Discourse, Engagement and Antagonism in the Italian Music Scene from the 60s to the 90s. Daniel F. CHAMBERLAIN: El corrido: Identity, Narrative, and Central Frontiers. John Charles CHASTEEN: A National Rhythm: Social Dance and Elite Identity in Nineteenth-Century Havana. Catherine DEN TANDT: Globalization and Identity: The Discourse of Popular Music in the Caribbean. Murray FORMAN: “Keeping it Real”?: African Youth Identities, and Hip Hop. Keith KAHN-HARRIS: “I hate this fucking country”: Dealing with the Global and the Local in the Israeli Extreme Metal Scene. Henry KLUMPENHOUWER: The Idiocy of Rural Life: Boerenrock, the Rural Debate and the Uses of Identity. Adam KRIMS: Rap, Race, the “Local,” and Urban Geography in Amsterdam. George LANG: Cannibalizing Bossa Nova. Claire LEVY: Who is the “Other” in the Balkans? Local Ethnic Music as a Different Source of Identities in Bulgaria. Lisa MCNEE: Back from Babylon: Popular Musical Cultures of the Diaspora, Youth Culture and Identity in Francophone West Africa. Hamid NAFICY: Identity Politics and Iranian Exile Music Videos. Parvati NAIR: Vocal In-roads: Flamenco, Orality and Postmodernity in Las 3000 Viviendas, Viejo Patio (Culcimer and EMI, 1999) Viviana RANGIL: Selena: Two Complementary Cinematographic Interpretations. Michael Frank TITLESTAD: “The artist gathers the bones”: The Shamanic Poetics of Jazz Discourse. Stella VILJOEN: En Route to the Rainbow Nation: South African Voices of Resistance. Contributors. Index.
