The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration

The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting core text for music and migration studies. Conceptualized as a comprehensive methodological and theoretical guide, it foregrounds the mobile potentials of music and presents key arguments about why musical expressions matter in the discussion of migration politics. 24 international specialists in music and migration set methodological and theoretical standards for transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of migration studies, discussing 41 keywords, such as mobility, community, research ethics, human rights, and critical whiteness in the context of music and migration. The authors then apply these terms to 16 chapters, which deal with ethnomusicological, musicological, sociological, anthropological, geographical, pedagogical, political, economic, and media-related methodologies and theories which reflect and contest current discourses of migration. In their interdisciplinary focus, these chapters advance interrelations between music and migration as enabling factors for socio-cultural studies. Furthermore, the authors tackle crucial questions of agency, equality, and equity as well as the responsibilities and expectations of writers and artists when researching migration phenomena as innate human experience. As a result, this handbook provides scholars and students alike with relevant and applicable methodological and theoretical tools in addition to an extensive literature and research review for further research.

Wolfgang Gratzer is an Austrian musicologist and Professor of Musicology at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria. Nils Grosch is Professor of Musicology and Head of the Department of Art, Music, and Dance Studies and the Research Center for Musical Theater at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Ulrike Präger is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Louisville, US. Susanne Scheiblhofer is a researcher and instructor at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

1. Introduction 2. Key Terms 3. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO MUSIC AND MIGRATION 3.1 Enacting and Embodying Mobile Voices: "Musicking as a Tool for (Ethnographic) Migration Research 3.2 Multi-Perspective Research in Musical Migration Contexts 3.3 Musicological Research with Refugees: Theoretical and Ethical Considerations 3.4 Musical Ethnography: Researching and Representing Migration, Expressive Culture, and Politics of Belonging 3.5 Polyphonic History: On Histoire Croisée as a Method of Musicological Exile and Migration Research 4. MOBILITY IMPULSES AND KINETIC MOMENTUMS 4.1 Music and Cultural Mobility 4.2 Music and Urban Migration: The City, Mobile Ethnography and Affective Citizenship 4.3 Between "Return Mobilities" and the Hope for an End to Exile: Musicology and Remigration Research 5. AFTER MIGRATION: INTERACTION, INCLUSION, AND PARTICIPATION 5.1 Music Making by Migrants from the Perspective of Sociological Integration Studies 5.2 Displaced Humanity on the Move: Rights, Needs, and Future Directions for Music 5.3 Musical Activities in the Acculturation Processes of Children and Adolescents with Migration Experiences 6. POSTCOLONIAL AND TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON MUSIC AND MIGRATION 6.1 Perpetual Transformation: Translating Music into New Spaces 6.2 Media, Migration, and Music: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives 6.3 Writing for Change: Critical Perspectives in Artistic and Scholarly Practices as Calls to Action 6.4 Music - Gender - Migration: Topics, Research Fields, and Methods 6.5 Music and Entrepreneurship: Perspectives from Migrant Business Research