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Language and music are connected in many ways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined in multiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined to express distinct and complex identities, attitudes, ideologies, social roles and political views. Spaces characterized by migration, contact, multilingualism, and colonial inequalities, are particularly interesting for the study of the intersections between language and music. This volume is the first book-length account of contact languages and music. It offers a stimulating collection of contributions on different territories, multiple musical genres and topics, and various methodological approaches. The chapters address myriad topics such as nationality, ethnicity, identity, gender, migration and diaspora.

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Andrea Hollington is a postdoc researcher at the University of Mainz, Germany. Joseph T. Farquharson is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at The University of the West Indies, Mona, and Coordinator of the Jamaican Language Unit. Byron M. Jones Jr. is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

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