HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Latcho Drom, Tomatito, Jewish Diaspora
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Case studies in flamenco & klezmer, & chinese n. america. Movement or displacement of a population (the norm, happens all the time) Diaspora communities (dispersion) displacement, forced from one place to another. For transnational ethnic minorities (cultures linked through connections to homeland), music is a marker of ethnic and cultural difference. Music expresses distinctive ethnicity highly meaningful when identity is suppressed, censored, or persecuted by mainstream. Music is very portable (ideas can be played on instruments, sung) Power of music to carry stories and experiences. Some musical styles maintained; others transformed or discarded. Cultural practice maintained with no change, has some deep social function. Most common in musical forms associated with religious ritual, or rites of passage. Indentured labour quasi slavery (contract of a number of years worked in exchange to rights for some land) Newly-arrived coolies in trinidad, late 19c (from eastern india, tricked into believing they were going to china, sang songs to keep them alive)
