TY - JOUR

T1 - Deciphering movement and stasis

T2 - Touring musicians and their ambivalent imaginings of home and belonging

AU - Ramella, Anna Lisa

N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

N2 - This article explores a reconceptualisation of movement and stasis in the narrations of contemporary touring musicians in Europe and the USA. Within these two music markets, touring has become a necessity that derives from and simultaneously pushes commercial success. By analysing the experiences of touring via the embodied and the imaginative, and drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with musicians on tour, the article contributes to an understanding of ambivalences regarding home and belonging in a 'mobile' setting. For musicians spending much of their time on the road, categories of immobility and mobility can no longer be framed as synonyms of home and away. Rather, both can be conceptualised as familiar and alien, depending on the individual, temporal and structural circumstances. The very blurring of the boundaries of movement and stasis enables a shifting of perspectives in which 'home' and 'tour' may be experienced as either a source of stability or transience.

AB - This article explores a reconceptualisation of movement and stasis in the narrations of contemporary touring musicians in Europe and the USA. Within these two music markets, touring has become a necessity that derives from and simultaneously pushes commercial success. By analysing the experiences of touring via the embodied and the imaginative, and drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with musicians on tour, the article contributes to an understanding of ambivalences regarding home and belonging in a 'mobile' setting. For musicians spending much of their time on the road, categories of immobility and mobility can no longer be framed as synonyms of home and away. Rather, both can be conceptualised as familiar and alien, depending on the individual, temporal and structural circumstances. The very blurring of the boundaries of movement and stasis enables a shifting of perspectives in which 'home' and 'tour' may be experienced as either a source of stability or transience.

KW - Belonging

KW - Home

KW - Immobility

KW - Mobility

KW - Movement

KW - Practices

KW - Rhythm

KW - Stasis

KW - Touring musicians

KW - Transience

KW - History

KW - Cultural studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057771206&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1504/IJTA.2018.096361

DO - 10.1504/IJTA.2018.096361

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85057771206

VL - 6

SP - 323

EP - 339

JO - International Journal of Tourism Anthropology

JF - International Journal of Tourism Anthropology

SN - 1759-0442

IS - 4

ER -