When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a co

Jon Stratton explores the concept of 'song careers', referring to how a song is picked up and then transformed by being revisioned by different artists and in d

Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: 'world' music, hip hop, bossa nova ... With case studies from a

The displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining feature of twentieth-century music history. The displacement of European musics and musicians is

This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in different global settings, and provides current, even new perspectives for ethnomusicolog