This paper discusses the transnational music practices and political reinforcement of national identities. It presents preliminary results of a research in progress about transnational cultural practices among the younger generations of Slovenian political exiles’ descendants in Argentina. It will explore the case of Baires Polka, a Slovenian Alpine Style music band that mainly performs cover versions of the Slovenian Avsenik Ensemble, as the basis for the analysis of the ways in which descendants in Diaspora continue their homeland music heritages and then reaffirm these practices through return mobilities and newly established transnational connections. The wish to continue their ancestors’ cultural practices and their homeland-orientated...