Music, Subcultures, and Migration: Routes and Roots

This book uses both archival sources and oral testimony from a wide variety of musicians, promoters, critics and members of the audience, contributors from a range of academic disciplines explore music and subcultural forms in countries across Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and Africa. This book investigates how far the meaning of music and associated subcultures change as they move from one context to another and consider whether they transcend or blur parameters of class, race gender and sexuality.