Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: 'world' music, hip hop, bossa nova ... . With case studies from across the world this ground-breaking collection shows how migrating music is key to the construction of a still-emerging, global cosmopolitan imagination.

1. Migrating Music Part 1: Migrants Introduction 2. Migrant/Migrating Music and the Mediterranean 3. 'My Own Little Morocco at Home': A Biographical Account of Migration, Mediation and Music Consumption 4. 'Realness': Authenticity, Innovation and Prestige among Young Danseurs Afros in Paris Part 2: Translations Introduction 5. Ridiculing Rap, Funlandizing Finns? Humour and Parody as Strategies of Securing the Ethnic Other in Popular Music 6. Hip-hop Tehran: Migrating Styles, Musical Meanings, Marginalised Voices 7. "Un Homme et Une Femme" Voyage via "Barquinho" to Hollywood and Beyond: Global Circulation, Musical Hybridization, and Adult Modernity, 1961-69 Part 3: Media Introduction 8. What Migrates and Who Does It? A Mini Case Study from Fiji 9. Migrating Music and Good-Enough Cosmopolitanism: Encounter with Robin Denselow and Charlie Gillett 10. Ports of Call: An Ethnographic Analysis of Music Programmes about the Migration of People, Musicians, Genres and Instruments, BBC World Service, 1994-1995 11. Music, Migration and War: the BBC's Interactive Music Broadcasting to Afghanistan and the Afghan Diaspora Part 4: Cities Introduction 12. Cavern Journeys: Music, Migration and Urban Space 13. 'New York Comes to Groningen': Jazz Star Circuits in the Netherlands 14. 'Brown Boys Doing It Like This': Asian Cultural Production and London's Asian Urban Music Scene

Jason Toynbee is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at The Open University. He does work on copyright and creativity, and ethnicity and the postcolonial condition. Much of his research on those issues focuses on popular music and jazz, as in his books Making Popular Music: Musicians, Institutions and Creativity (Arnold, 2000) and Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? (Polity, 2007).

Byron Dueck is University Fellow in Music at the Open University. His work focuses on the role of musical and embodied experience in constituting public cultures. The majority of his research concerns First Nations and Métis music in western Canada; other interests include Cameroonian popular music and jazz.