MUSIC 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Wooden Fish, Human Migration, Move
7 Jan 2020
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Chapter 4: music and migration- the chinese migration. Introduction to part 2: music and migration. The factors influencing migration, and the differences between voluntary and forced migration. The dynamics of oral and written musical transmission. The role music services in sustaining various diasporic communities. The influence of migration and diasporic experiences on musical practices. Music is portable: when people move so does their music. Modern transportation has allowed mass movement to occur much more quickly. Recorded music has helped music move and, with new technologies, it moves faster than ever. Music can bring comfort for people as they move, source of connection( e. g. bring homeland) Music could only travel through human migration at the time. Composers who get to travel the most. Diaspora comes from the greek word for dispersion . Diasporic communities encompass a wide array of immigrant groups living outside their homeland: political refugees, alien residents, guest workers, immigrants, expellees, and ethnic and racial minorities.
