The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism

351 Pages·2013·5.14 MB·English

by  Simone Krüger

The Globalization of Musics
in Transit
This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in dif-
ferent global settings, and provides current, even new perspectives for eth-
nomusicological research on globalizing musics in transit. The dual focus
on tourism and migration is central to debates on globalization, and their
examination—separately or combined—off ers a useful lens on many key
questions about where globalization is taking us: questions about iden-
tity and heritage, commoditization, historical and cultural representation,
hybridity, authenticity and ownership, neoliberalism, inequality, diasporiza-
tion, the relocation of allegiances, and more. Moreover, for the fi rst time,
these two key phenomena—tourism and migration—are studied conjointly,
as well as interdisciplinary, in order to derive both parallels and contrasts.
While taking diverse perspectives in embracing the contemporary musical
landscape, the collection off ers a range of research methods and theoretical
approaches from ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural geography, soci-
ology, popular music studies, and media and communication. In so doing,
Musics in Transit provides a rich exemplifi cation of the ways that all forms
of musical culture are becoming transnational under post-global conditions,
sustained by both global markets and musics in transit, and to which both
tourists and diasporic cosmopolitans make an important contribution.
Simone Krüger is a Programme Leader in Popular Music Studies at Liver-
pool John Moores University, UK.
Ruxandra Trandafoiu is Reader in Communication at Edge Hill Univer-
sity, UK.
Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
1 Popular Music of Vietnam
The Politics of Remembering, the
Economics of Forgetting
Dale A. Olsen
2 The Local Scenes and Global
Culture of Psytrance
Edited by Graham St John
3 Local Music Scenes and
Globalization
Transnational Platforms in Beirut
Thomas Burkhalter
4 The Globalization of Musics in
Transit
Music Migration and Tourism
Edited by Simone Krüger and
Ruxandra Trandafoiu
The Globalization of Musics
in Transit
Music Migration and Tourism
Edited by Simone Krüger and
Ruxandra Trandafoiu
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The globalization of musics in transit : music migration and tourism /
edited by Simone Krüger and Ruxandra Trandafoiu.
pages cm. — (Routledge studies in ethnomusicology ; 4)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Music and globalization. 2. Emigration and immigration.
3. Music and tourism. 4. Ethnomusicology. I. Krüger, Simone, editor
of compilation. II. Trandafoiu, Ruxandra, editor of compilation.
ML3916.G56 2013
780.9—dc23
2013014867
ISBN13: 978-0-415-64007-7 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-08291-1 (ebk)
Typeset in Sabon
by IBT Global.
To Lorcan and Ezra,
who have taken us onto new journeys.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Touristic and Migrating Musics in Transit 1
SIMONE KRÜGER AND RUXANDRA TRANDAFOIU
PART I
Music and Tourism
1 Heritage Rocks! Mapping Spaces of Popular Music Tourism 35
SARA COHEN AND LES ROBERTS
2 Negotiating Musical Boundaries and Frontiers: Tourism, Child
Performers, and the Tourist-Ethnographer in Bali, Indonesia 59
JONATHAN MCINTOSH
3 The Staged Desert: Tourist and Nomad Encounters at the
Festival au Désert 86
MARTA AMICO
4 The Golden Fleece: Music and Cruise Ship Tourism 101
DAVID CASHMAN AND PHILIP HAYWARD
5 Mobilizing Music Festivals for Rural Transformation:
Opportunities and Ambiguities 115
JOHN CONNELL AND CHRIS GIBSON
6 Branding the City: Music Tourism and the European Capital
of Culture Event 135
SIMONE KRÜGER
viii Contents
7 Goatrance Travelers: Psychedelic Trance and Its
Seasoned Progeny 160
GRAHAM ST JOHN
PART II
Music and Migration
8 Global Balkan Gypsy Music: Issues of Migration,
Appropriation, and Representation 185
CAROL SILVERMAN
9 From the Shtetl to the Gardens and Beyond: Identity and
Symbolic Geography in Cape Town’s Synagogue Choirs 209
STEPHEN P.K. MUIR
10 Reimagining the Caucasus: Music and Community in the
Azerbaijani Aşıq Tradition 230
ANNA OLDFIELD
11 From Burger Highlife to Gospel Highlife: Music, Migration,
and the Ghanaian Diaspora 251
FLORIAN CARL
12 Transnational Samba and the Construction of Diasporic
Musicscapes 272
NATASHA PRAVAZ
13 Music in Cyberspace: Transitions, Translations, and
Adaptations on Romanian Diasporic Websites 298
RUXANDRA TRANDAFOIU
Afterword: Identities and Tourisms in Globalized Neoliberal
Capitalism 318
TIMOTHY D. TAYLOR
Contributors 327
Index 333
Figures
I.1 Screenshot of ‘Songlines Music Travel’. 5
1.1 ‘Where It’s At’ interactive map, British Music Experience,
O2 London. 41
1.2 Music memory map, female, late 30s, Liverpool (July 2012). 48
1.3 Music memory map, male, late 50s, London (October 2012). 50
2.1 The principal child dancers in the Pondok Pekak Sendratari
tourist performance. 70
2.2 Boy dancers from Sanggar Tari Mumbul Sari, dressed in
Tari Baris Gede costumes awaiting the start of the funerary
procession to the cremation ground in Keramas. 72
3.1 Attendees of the Festival au Désert in 2009. 93
3.2 The ‘traditional stage’ at the Festival au Désert 2009. 94
3.3 The ‘modern stage’ at the Festival au Désert 2009. 95
4.1 A model of a cruise ship ‘experience.’ 102
4.2 A Caribbean band playing on the lido deck of a cruise ship. 110
6.1 On my way to work: A bus depicting Liverpool 08 slogans,
architecture, and the Beatles drives along Hope Street. 137
6.2 Liverpool 08 Program,
(a) containing images depicting Indian women in arm
bangles and brightly colored skirts, dancing in the
(monsoon?) rain. 140
(b) young Arabs in turbans holding large daggers, similar to
the characters in 1001 Nights and Aladdin. 140
(c) a man of African descent with colorful face paint,
wearing a costume accessorized with beads, strings,
and feathers. 141
6.3 Overview of the music program of activity and events during
2008. 142
6.4 A page from the promotional brochure 08 Participate. 145
6.5 Africa Oyé festival, June 21 and 22, 2008. 147