Music, Space And Place
Subtitle: Popular Music And Cultural Identity (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Published: July 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780754655749
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Cultural studies; Genres & Styles - International; Music
First sentence: Whether they look for remembrance or forgetting, individuals and societies always build a continuity into which they can inscribe themselves, especially when this continuity has been rendered difficult by a historical or geographical rupture, as it has for people said to be 'in diaspora': for them, history is no longer a continuous flow expressed by an uninterrupted transmission, but it becomes a time broken into before and after; and familiar places, in which history is spontaneously rooted, are not inhabited day after day, but are replaced by an imaginary 'elsewhere' that dwells in memory.