Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Suzanne, Gilles

Titel

The Journey of Rai: Routes and Worlds of Transnational Art in the Mediterranean

Ist Teil von

• History and anthropology, 2007-09, Vol.18 (3), p.379-387

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The author traces the evolution of Rai from an example of local Algerian identity to a pan-European phenomenon of world music. By following the trans-national routes of Rai music, the author shows that the survival and prosperity of the genre rests on an extensive triple circulation: first, the circulation of diasporic colporteurs of this music who transport the musical products between the "here" and "there". Second, the circulation of performers who perambulate, nourishing in this way Rai 's international dimension. And finally, those circulations handled by professionals connected through networks, who transfer music lists as well as technical knowledge. The study of Rai music thus permits us to describe the rapidly globalized expansion of a musical genre through the prism of its spatial development, and through the diverse levels of its progression. The study concludes that globalization proceeds as much from the "top-down" as from the "bottom-up", sustained by a structuring network of trans-national routes in an interplay between the local and the global.