Chairs: Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Alejandro Madrid

"Musics Abroad" will take a global and comparative approach to music and mobility in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with particular attention to music and musicians within new diaspora communities established in recent decades.The seminar will examine case studies of individual diaspora communities; it will build on immigration and diaspora studies to explore theories and methods for comparative study of world musics outside their home environments; it will investigate human and virtual channels through which these musics have travelled; and it will take account of new, hybrid styles that have emerged as a result of musical mobility. In sum, the seminar will investigate the roles that music plays in transmitting and sustaining aspects of expatriate musical life abroad, in domains ranging from religious orders to popular entertainment.