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 ...

The power and the beauty of minority music have never been questioned as the cultures of the world come into contact irrespective of westernization, or globalization. With the advent of the internet, minority music has ...

How have songs aided the efforts of Nagas to establish a nation-state whose intended boundaries conflicted with those left by the British Empire? How have Nagas responded with their songs to colonial and postcolonial ...

Indigenous people (Ādivāsi) are usually an isolated community with a specific language, culture and way of life belonging to generations, endemic to each country or region. While indegenous communities are the inheritors ...

Among all Sri Lankan minorities, the Veddas are widely considered the last indigenous tribal community in the country. Majority of them are living in the forest villages in Eastern and Sabaragamuwa provinces with minimum ...

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 ...

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. Around the Indian Ocean there were numerous nations and empires that absorbed ...

The paper presents the author’s new theoretical ideas based on the wedding rituals of the Volga German ethnic minority in Russia (1764-present). New conclusions about these rituals at various stages and changes provide a ...

The Malaysian Chinese art song has its past as a transnational "variant" of the European art song and a lineage from both the Chinese art song and revolutionary song. The genre combines musical realms from the West and the ...

The transmigration program was initiated by the Dutch in the 1910’s and continued to develop with the Indonesian government after independence in 1945, making it one of the largest resettlements schemes of the 20th century. ...