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Oct 11, 2016 · The explosion of popular music in the 1950s and ’60s, in line with developments in sound technology and exchanges across the Black Atlantic, took place in an era of decolonization. Popular music sometimes had a direct role in fostering anti-colonial cultural resistance and organizational communication, as well as decolonizing hearts and minds ...
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This special issue of Popular Music and Society examines the...
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Ethnomusicology has encouraged us to understand world music – that is to say, all music – as a process of human social behaviour, a complex process that frequently transcends such familiar dichotomies as text and performance, composition and improvisation, individual and group
Feb 28, 2016 · Key to this global conception of history—and, implicitly, to traditional European historiography—are debates surrounding the notion of a “great divergence” between the West and the rest, leading to the emergence of modernity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
‘Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music’ discusses global music in the modern world from street musicians in the new Eastern Europe to world music festivals.
This special issue of Popular Music and Society examines the often overlooked relation-ship of popular music and the postcolonial. The explosion of popular music in the 1950s and ’60s, in line with developments in sound technology and exchanges across the Black Atlantic, took place in an era of decolonization.
Aug 22, 2023 · Just as colonialism and its ‘informal continuities’ with the postmodern world create colonized and colonizers alike, they also provide the stage for the emergence and transformation of certain musical givens, of things such as European music, music history, primitive music, non-western music, and so on.
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Jul 23, 2020 · World music intensifies in immigrant p. 112 and exile communities; it lends itself to ideological manipulation across the spectrum of political power; it affixes itself to revivalism no less than to experimentalism; it is the stuff of festival culture and tourism.
