Journeys of Love: Kashmiris, Music, and the Poetics of Migration

by Thomas Hodgson

An empathetic and eye-opening portrait of Muslim migrants in England that debunks many misperceptions about their music and poetry.

In Journeys of Love, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hodgson rejects the British media's and government's harmful portrayals of Pakistanis as a self-segregating group prohibited from making music, stereotypes that have often resulted in violent Islamophobia. He argues that, in practice, these Pakistani...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226841421
• ISBN13: 9780226841427
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.