Sydney Hutchinson: 2 books
Tigers of a Different Stripe
Performing Gender in Dominican Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue típico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders—something...
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas,...