Description: Dance Hall Migrations is a research network that brings together scholars working on migratory dynamics surrounding dancing, dance-musics, dancehalls, cabarets, and global entertainment businesses throughout the twentieth century to the present. Above all, this project considers the layered meanings of human migration within and beyond the power relations conditioned by political circumstance, opening up academic conversations…
Dance-Music Travels in the Age of Modernity
Dance Hall Migrations is a research network that brings together scholars working on migratory dynamics surrounding dancing, dance-musics, dancehalls, cabarets, and global entertainment businesses throughout the twentieth century to the present. Above all, this project considers the layered meanings of human migration within and beyond the power relations conditioned by political circumstance, opening up academic conversations about the ways in which pleasures, loss, aspirations, money, disappointments, an
The dancehall migrations network also explores the broader methodological and disciplinary questions surrounding personal narratives and memory as history. Through interrogating the role of autobiographic stories and personal anecdotes in historical writings, the network opens up critical reconsideration of the conceptions of history relevant to the dancehall migrations . See Personal Narratives~History for more details.