Theorizing Diaspora and Music












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            * Salomon Thomas
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            Abstrakt

            This article sketches out a synthesis of issues that have emerged in the study of diaspora
            The author identifies two broad approaches in the literature: 1) diaspora as social format
            diaspora as metaphor. By “diaspora as social formation” is meant approaches that stress a 

            definition of diaspora and that emphasize the historical facts and material conditions of 
            empirical enquiry focused on the social networks that maintain diasporic communities and t
            in articulating such networks. In contrast, approaches that evoke “diaspora as metaphor” e

            interpretive possibilities that the idea of diaspora enables in regard to the historical a
            global flows of music. The article ends with a brief discussion of the metaphor of the rhi

            of thinking about the non-hierarchical nature of diasporic networks, and of the way music 
            the different nodes of these networks while providing a vehicle for the imagination and pe
            diasporic consciousness.


            Klíčová slova
            diaspora; migration; transnationalism; globalization; rhizome


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