Tarab and transtopias. A postmigrant analysis of Arab music making and teaching in southern Sweden

A postmigrant analysis of Arab music making and teaching in southern Sweden

Authors

  • Josepha Wessels Media and Communication Studies, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2682-035X
  • Helene Hedberg International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), Malmö University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62779/puls.9.2024.23740

Keywords:

Arab musicians , Arab music, tarab , music making, mobility , cultural change, postmigration, transtopia, Sweden

Abstract

.

Author Biographies

Josepha Wessels, Media and Communication Studies, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University

Josepha Wessels is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University. She has a background in Visual Anthropology and Human Geography, specialised in the Arab world in particular Syria. She is interested in Syrian culture and history and the Syrian diaspora in Europe. In 2019, she published a landmark book on the history of Syrian Documentary cinema and video activism with IB Tauris/Bloomsbury UK. She is in the final stages of a long-term ethnographic film project documenting life histories of Syrians over a period of 20 years.

Helene Hedberg, International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), Malmö University

Helene Hedberg is a M.A. student International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at Malmö University. She is interested in human rights, migration and the MENA region. She was a research assistant at the ongoing research project at Malmö University entitled “Academia and Cultural Production as ‘Postmigrant’ Fields in Sweden” funded in 2021–24 by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJDnr. P20-0137), which involves researchers from Malmö University (Maja Povrzanović Frykman and Josepha Wessels) and Lund University (Eleonora Narvselius, Cristine Sarrimo, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa).

Downloads

Published

2024-05-22

How to Cite

Wessels, J., & Hedberg, H. (2024). Tarab and transtopias. A postmigrant analysis of Arab music making and teaching in southern Sweden: A postmigrant analysis of Arab music making and teaching in southern Sweden. Puls - Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology, 9, 61–82. https://doi.org/10.62779/puls.9.2024.23740

Issue

Vol. 9 (2024)

Section

Articles

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Similar Articles

1 2 3 4 > >> 

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.