Music on the Move
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
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About the book

University of Michigan Press, 2020

Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups. It can encourage curiosity and foster understanding. It can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. Above all, music continually changes as it crosses social, linguistic, and political boundaries. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness has brought new creative opportunities even as it raises concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation.

Open Access

This book is available free of charge from the University of Michigan Press and the OSU Knowledge Bank, thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem). Hardcopy and Paperback versions are also available.

Multimodal Approach

The e-book includes more than one hundred audiovisual examples, as well as six interactive digital maps.

Teaching Resources

Connections to teaching resources including further links to audiovisual sources, syllabi, a Facebook conversation, and mapping software can be found on this website.

Resources

Author

Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Professor of Music

Danielle Fosler-Lussier is Professor of Music at the Ohio State University. Her interests include global mobility and the politics of music, as well as how we teach and learn music history. Her general-interest book about music and mobility, entitled Music on the Move, is available as an open-access digital book as well as in hardback and paperback (published June 2020). Music in America’s Cold War Diplomacy (published in 2015) is accompanied by an online database of U.S. cultural presentations from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Dr. Fosler-Lussier has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. Her research has been supported by the TOME Open Monograph Initiative and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Princeton University.

Praise for Music on the Move

“Music on the Move covers the mobility-related topics that matter in current music scholarship, and that students will want to learn about. It serves simultaneously as a new kind of ‘music of the world’ primer, and as an introduction to anthropological concepts of medial and cultural mobility.”

—Benjamin Tausig, Stony Brook University

“Danielle Fosler-Lussier’s Music on the Move offers a richly informative yet accessible introduction to the topic of music and migration, especially in the modern era. One of the book’s most impressive features is its integration of sophisticated theoretical ideas into a clear and engaging discussion of each particular case. Music on the Move is a very welcome addition to the literature on music, globalization, and global history, and I look forward to using it in my classes.”

—Olivia Bloechl, University of Pittsburgh