Synopses & Reviews
This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural, and civil society milieus of globalizing societies.
Review
"Kiwan and Meinhof imaginatively realize the very concept of network as a complex of paths that converge at hubs, which then serve as sites of transforming African music into the global. The very mobility of musicians we trace through these pages provides critically important new perspectives on globalization and music today."--Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music, The University of Chicago, USA
About the Author
NADIA KIWAN is Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK and author of
Identities, Discourses and Experiences: Young People of North African Origin in France. Her research interests include migration, identity, new social movements, and new forms of migrant cultural production and citizenship.
ULRIKE MEINHOF is Director of the Research Center for Transnational Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. She has directed ESRC, AHRC and EU-funded research into EU border identities, cultural policy in metropolitan cities, networks and neighborhoods in provincial regions in Europe, and transnational networks of musicians from Africa.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Networks and Transnational Movements - a Theoretical and Methodological Challenge to Migration Research
Translocal Networking in Madagascar and Morocco
Metropolitan Hubs in the South
Capital Cities as Global Hubs
Beyond the Capitals: Translocality/transnationality in Europe and the South
Mutual Supports: North <> South
Mutual supports: South <> North