Journeys of Love

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 offers a sensitive corrective to harmful portrayals of immigrants—specifically, Pakistanis living in England—as a self-segregating group prohibited from making music, a stereotype that has often resulted in violent Islamophobia. He argues that, in practice, these migrants—many of whom come from the Mirpur