World music and the search for difference

Jo Haynes (1)

1 University of Bristol [Bristol]

World music has been immersed in a series of complex ethical, political and aesthetic debates since its emergence as a new musical category in the 1980s. These debates have been fuelled by competing perspectives that portray world music as either an exemplar of progressive cosmopolitan politics that foster cultural hybridity or as reinforcing fixed and unitary conceptions of difference through an essentializing representation of cultures.

Mots clés: cosmopolitanism; cultural intermediaries; Englishness; ethnicity; hybridity; race

Jo Haynes. World music and the search for difference. Ethnicities, 2005, 5 (3), pp.365-385. ⟨10.1177/1468796805054961⟩. ⟨hal-00571846⟩