Whose sounds fit in the nation-state? Always a politicized question, an exploration of popular music that enters the mainstream offers one way into interconnected questions about belonging. In Canada in particular, a recent ...

Sri Lankan music and its structural relationship to nationalism offer a specific case from which to reflect more generally on ideology and its relationship to Buddhism and AryaSinhala concept. This study focuses on ...

This paper addresses Slovenian brass bands (Slovenski trubači) that flourished on the music scene after 2000 (Kovačič 2009; Hofman 2011; Šivic 2013). In analyzing the case study of selected brass bands, I explore how the ...

Over the past decade, debates on decolonizing ethnomusicology and related initiatives around equality, diversity and inclusion in academia at large have attempted to address the issue of representation of minority or ...

Based on ethnographic research conducted with minority musicians from 24 ethnic groups of mainland China, this presentation will give a short overview of traditions and changes and of underlying structures and driving ...

During seven devastating years of Anglo-Burmese war (1819-1826), a significant number of Manipuris (prominent inhabitants of Manipur and Barak valley of the present India) migrated in search for a new land for survival and ...

The scholarship on migration has traversed profound shifts in the last fifty years from immigration studies in the 1970s, to diaspora studies 1980s, to transnational and transborder studies in the 1990s and early 2000s, ...

This paper will discuss the Gurbani Sangit Parampara as an Indigenous Sikh knowledge system whose practices, pedagogies, and patterns have been passed down orally over centuries. Since it takes only one generation for ...

I would like to give a presentation with talk and image on the diaspora of music and rituals originating from East-Africa across Indian Ocean. At the Spring festival (Chinese New Year)’s Eve, Fengyun finished the work ...

Malaysia is a multicultural nation located at the nexus of “mainland” and “island” Southeast Asia. Through maritime links, communities from the region, Asia, and Europe participated in mercantile activities and eventually ...