Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration

Synopsis

This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this transnational collection of essays addresses how their interconnection has shaped our understanding of the paradigms through which we think about migration, ethnicity, nation, and the transnational. Cultural representations intervene in collective beliefs. Art and media clearly influence the ways the experience of migration is articulated and recalled, intervening in individual perceptions as well as public policy. To understand the connection between migration and diverse media, the authors examine how migration is represented in film, television, music, and art, but also how media shape the ways in which host country and homeland are imagined. Among the topics considered are new mediated forms for representing migration, widening the perspective on the ways these representations may be analyzed; readings of enactments of memory in trans- and inter-disciplinary ways; and discussions of globalization and transnationalism, inviting us to rethink traditional borders in respect to migration, nation states, as well as disciplines.

Copyright:

2011

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781136922114

Related ISBNs:

9780203844724, 9780415882903, 9780415882903, 9780415835916, 9780415835916

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/10/20

Copyrighted By:

Taylor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Rocío G. Davis

Edited by:

Dorothea Fischer-Hornung

Edited by:

Johanna C. Kardux