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M. Stokes

1995.12.1Musicology Australia

DOI: 10.1080/08145857.1995.10415274

tlooto Summary

Ethnicity and identity are explored through music as a means of constructing place and national identity.

Abstract

Contents: M. Stokes, Introduction: Ethnicity, Identity and Music - M. Chapman, Thoughts on Celtic Music - J. Baily, The Role of Music in the Creation of an Afghan National Identity, 1923-73 - Z. Mach, National Anthems: The Case of Chopin as a National Composer - S. A. Reily, Macunaima's Music: National Identity and Ethnomusicological Research in Brazil - M. Stokes, Place, Exchange and Meaning: Black Sea Musicians in the West Coast of Ireland - S. Cohen, Identity, Place and the 'Liverpool Sound' - F. Magowan, 'The Land is our Marr (Essence) It Stays Forever': The Yothu-Yindi Relationship in Australian Aboriginal Traditional and Popular Musics - P. Parkes, Personal and Collective Identity in Kalasha Song Performance: The Significance of Music-making in a Minority Enclave - H. La Rue, Music, Literature and Etiquette: Musical Instruments and Social Identity from Castiglione to Austen

Citation format

STOKES, M. Ethnicity, identity and music: The musical construction of place. Musicology Australia, 1995, 18: 427–431.