This course is a musical and historical journey through New York’s migrant musical scenes from the 1960s to the present. Students will expand their understanding of migrant music beyond traditional musics to include collaborations beyond ethnic enclaves and across the spheres of pop, hip hop, EDM, rock, and jazz. Case studies include African, Brazilian, and Caribbean exchanges in funk and jazz; Eastern European and Japanese collaborations in experimental, punk, and noise scenes; and Latino/a, Caribbean, and African American interactions in rap and hip hop. Students will examine these scenes with respect to politics of representation, multiculturalism, assimilation, and immigration policy. Coursework includes frequent listening assignments, and readings by Stuart Hall, Adelaide Reyes, Josh Kun, George Lipsitz, and Jeff Chang, as well as artists’ autobiographies, album reviews, and magazine interviews. The culminating assignment is an “artist visa” portfolio, assembled by each student in relation to a New York–based band, and presented to the class.