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Media making and social reality
No full textThe chapter intervenes in the long-running debate in media studies concerning the priority of production of media vis a vis reception. It argues for the former, but uses critical realist social theory to do so, assembling a case for the essentially realist, that is to say world-directedness, of the media along the way
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Migrating music
No full textThis chapter explores the relationship between music and migration in the light of changing theoretical perspectives, but also a changing world. Through a series of empirical vignettes it argues for a reconceptualisation that puts music at the centre of cultural globalisation. Migrating music, it is argued, involves a mimetic encounter with others, but also translation, that is the emergent transformation of the music of others. These processes are central to the construction of a cosmopolitan world which is nevertheless riven with persisting difference
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Why media studies needs better social theory
No full textMedia studies has lost contact with social theory since the emergence of the field in the 1970s. This chapter argues for a return to engagement with that body of work in order counter both the media-centrism and sectarianism which characterise the contemporary field. In so doing it suggests a renewed focus in media scholarship on causality and social norms via, among other approaches, contemporary critical realism and third generation critical theory
Race, consecration and the music outside? The making of the British jazz avant-garde 1968-1973
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Migrating Music
No full textThis collection considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on ‘world music’ questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre – but says relatively little about migration and mobility – diaspora studies have much to say about the latter, yet little about the significance of music.
In this context, the book affirms the centrality of music as a mode of translation and cosmopolitan mediation, whilst also pointing out the complexity of the processes at stake within it. Migrating music, it argues, represents perhaps the most salient mode of performance of otherness to mutual others, and as such its significance in socio-cultural change rivals – and even exceeds – literature, film, and other language and image-based cultural forms
'My own little Morocco at home': A biographical account of migration, mediation and music consumption
No full textMusic consumption has undergone significant changes during recent years with the development of new media technologies and the availability of music on the Internet. This has had a particularly striking impact on the lives of migrants and their connections with both the diaspora and country of origin. This paper explores the correlation between music consumption and the articulation and negotiation of multiple identities and relationships by examining the role that mediated music has played in the life of one Moroccan man at different stages of his migratory journey from Morocco to Britain. In particular, I consider how the rise in new media in the form of music sharing websites (such as YouTube) enables migrants to reconstruct notions of kinship and friendship in new ways by constructing transnational cyber-communities whose focus is music consumption. As music clips and comments are exchanged between cousins, brothers, sons and mothers living across three continents, I explore how previously encountered ethnic and national identities are individually and communally re-negotiated and re-imagined and, at times, a sense of belonging and well-being is experienced
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What migrates and who does it? A mini case study from Fiji
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Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on ‘world music’ questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre – but says relatively little about migration and mobility – diaspora studies have much to say about the latter, yet little about the significance of music.
In this context, this book affirms the centrality of music as a mode of translation and cosmopolitan mediation, whilst also pointing out the complexity of the processes at stake within it. Migrating music, it argues, represents perhaps the most salient mode of performance of otherness to mutual others, and as such its significance in socio-cultural change rivals – and even exceeds – literature, film, and other language and image-based cultural forms.
This book will serve as a valuable reference tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students with research interests in cultural studies, sociology of culture, music, globalization, migration, and human geography
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Analysing Media Texts
No full textThis book examines the analysis of media texts from a number of perspectives: semiotics, narrative, genre, discourse and content analysis, and the politics of representation
Spectacular Morality: 'Reality' Television, Individualisation and the Re-making of the Working Class
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