Music in Asian Diasporas

Music in Asian Diasporas is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies class taught by Junko Oba.

Course Description
This course explores different roles that music plays in the on-going construction of diasporic Asian communities, negotiation of complex identities, personal and collective empowerment, and transnational networking. Case studies cover Asian diasporas worldwide (various Asian communities in the Americas; South Asians in the West Indies, UK, and South Africa, for example) as well as minority enclaves inside Asia (Okinawans, Koreans, and Nikkei Brazilians in Japan).