Eurasian entanglements: notes towards a planetary perspective of popular music histories

In recent years, music scholars have argued for a shift towards writing and researching world history, in line with other planetary impulses that invite a more inclusive, de-centred, and less parochial view of cultural life. This intervention argues for a focus on the exchanges, influences, and dialogues of popular music across Eurasia, as just one dynamic cultural space of creative dialogues stretched across and entangled with many other places and peoples around the planet.