Identity and the arts in diaspora communities / edited by Thomas Turino and James Lea.

Other author Turino, Thomas, editor.
Other author Lea, James, 1972- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoWarren, MI : Harmonie Park Press, 2004.
Description144 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Subjects

SeriesDetroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 40
Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ; no. 40. ^A281112
Contents Introduction: identity and the arts in diaspora communities / Thomas Turino -- Diasporic dialogues: mediated musics and the Albanian transnation / Jane C. Sugarman -- Reconstructing the Armenian: the genocide as a cultural marker in the reification of Armenian identity / Ani Yazedjian -- Art and diaspora: the restitution of art taken from Jews during World War II / Sarah Hatch -- The construction of diasporic identity in literary discourse: the Jewish Gaucho / Elise Bartosik-Vélez -- The African diaspora in Carrie Mae Weems's Sea Island Series / David O'Brien -- Communities of style: musical figures of Black diasporic identity / Veit Erlmann -- Hindu temples and Asian-Indian diasporic identity in the United States / Bharat Mehra -- Dancing the diaspora: Indian desi music in Chicago / Gregory Diethrich -- Beyond border thinking: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera and the Mexican-American diaspora / Corinne Andersen.
Abstract The articles in this book illustrate the important connections between art, identity, and social formations that disciplines like anthropology and ethnomusicology have long taken for granted. These case studies emphasize the importance of artistic practices and forms within diaspora formations in particular and within social and political movements more generally. The contributors, coming from different disciplinary backgrounds, shed a unique light on the specific potentials of the different arts to create and represent diasporic subjectivities upon which the very existence of diasporas depend.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 125-139) and index.
LCCN 2004042456
ISBN0899901247 (hardcover : alk. paper)