Week 10 - Nov 7 & 9, 2011 - Transnational migrations and diaspora musics
- Mon, Wed: Lectures (case studies: France, Trinidad)
- Fri, Nov 11: no class.
Readings:
Assigned reading:
Gross, Joan, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg. “Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap and Franco-Maghrebi Identities.” Diaspora, 3/1, 1994, pp. 3-39.
YouTube links for this class:
Supreme NTM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9moP1SNWa4E
Édith Piaf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzy2wZSg5ZM&ob=av2n
Supreme NTM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7trJTujKv8&ob=av2e
Natacha Atlas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeP-bJFg1bQ
Additional reading:
Ramnarine, Tina. “”Indian” music in the Diaspora: Case Studies of “Chutney in Trinidad and in London.” British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 5, 1996, pp. 133-153.
Further reading:
Swedenburg, Ted. “Islamic hip-hop vs. Islamophobia: Aki Nawaz, Natacha Atlas, Akhenaton,” in Mitchell, Tony (ed.) Global Noise: rap and Hip-Hop outside the USA. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
