Popular Music and the Postcolonial addresses the often-overlooked relationship between the fields of popular music and postcolonial studies, and it has implicat

The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumpti

'World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws readers into a remarkable range of these historical encou

This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It f

In Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender, Leith Davis studies the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the midnineteenth centuri