This book examines the role of migrant and migrant descended communities in the production and consumption of popular music in Europe and North America. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of International Migration Studies at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, USA.

Marco Martiniello is Research Director at the FRS-FNRS, Brussels, Belgium, and Director of CEDEM-Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Introduction: Music, migration and the city 1. Harlem Calypso and Brooklyn Soca: Caribbean Carnival music in the diaspora 2. "Immigrants! We get the Job Done!": newcomers remaking America on Broadway 3. Think global, act Argentine! tango émigrés and the search for artistic authenticity 4. Music and migration among the Alevi immigrants from Turkey in Germany 5. Cultural, ethnic and political dimensions of Mediterraneaness in Neapolitan contemporary music: from a discursive transformation in sounds and lyrics to mobilization against Salvini's Lega 6. Franglais in a post-rap world: audible minorities and anxiety about mixing in Québec 7. How did son jarocho become a music for the immigrant rights movement? 8. Music and the political expression and mobilization of second and third-generation immigrants in urban Europe: insights from Liège (Belgium)