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Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), satellite broadcasting, digital downloads, and streaming. The introductory chapter by the volume editors develops two framing metaphors: 2traveling musics3 and 2making waves.3 The wave-making metaphor illuminates the ways that traveling musics traverse flows of globalization and migration, initiating change, and generating energy of their own. Each of the nine contributors further examines music{u2014}its songs, makers, instruments, aurality, aesthetics, and images{u2014}as it crosses oceans, continents, and islands. In the process of landing in new homes, music interacts with older established cultural environments, sometimes in unexpected ways and with surprising results. They see these traveling musics in Hawai{u2018}i, Asia, and the Pacific as 2making waves3{u2014}that is, not only riding flows of globalism, but instigating ripples of change. What is the nature of those ripples? What c

Author

Lau, Frederick; Yano, Christine R.

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824874872