Music, popular culture, identities / edited by Richard Young.

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Introduction / Richard Young -- From cantautori to posse : sociopolitical discourse, engagement and antagonism in the Italian music scene from the 60s to the 90s / William Anselmi -- El corrido : identity, narrative, and central frontiers / Daniel F. Chamberlain -- A national rhythm : social dance and elite identity in nineteenth-century Havana / John Charles Chasteen -- Globalization and identity : the discourse of popular music in the Caribbean / Catherine Den Tandt -- "Keeping it real"? : African youth identities, and hip hop / Murray Forman -- "I hate this fucking country" : dealing with the global and the local in the Israeli extreme metal scene / Keith Kahn-Harris -- The idiocy of rural life : boerenrock, the rural debate and the uses of identity / Henry Klumpenhouwer -- Rap, race, the "local," and urban geography in Amsterdam / Adam Krims -- Cannibalizing bossa nova / George Lang -- Who is the "other" in the Balkans? : local ethnic music as a different source of identities in Bulgaria / Claire Levy -- Back from Babylon : popular musical cultures of the diaspora, youth culture and identity in francophone West Africa / Lisa McNee -- Identity politics and Iranian exile music videos / Hamid Naficy -- Vocal in-roads : flamenco, orality and postmodernity in Las 3000 viviendas, Viejo Patio (Dulcimer and EMI, 1999) / Parvati Nair -- Selena : two complementary cinematographic interpretations / Viviana Rangil -- "The artist gathers the bones" : the shamanic poetics of jazz discourse / Michael Frank Titlestad -- En route to the rainbow nation : South African voices of resistance / Stella Viljoen.

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Music, 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.

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