Music and the racial imagination / edited by Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman; with a foreword by Houston A. Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radano, Ronald Michael.

Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and race.

Physical Description:

xv, 703 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2000]

Contents:

Introduction : Music and race, their past, their presence / Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman

The Asia American body in performance / Deborah Wong

Ethnifying rhythms, feminizing cultures / Frances R. Aparicio

"Ain't I people?" : voicing national fantasy / Brian Currid

"Sexual pantomimes," the blues aesthetic and black women in the new South / Tera W. Hunter

Race music : Bo Chatmon, "Corrine Corrina," and the excluded middle / Christopher A. Waterman

Mestizaje in the Mix : Chicano identity, cultural politics and postmodern music / Rafael Pérez-Torres

Performing decency : ethnicity and race in Andean "Mestizo" ritual dance / Zoila Mendoza

Indonesian-Chinese oppression and the musical outcomes in the Netherlands East Indies / Margaret J. Kartomi

Ethnic identity, national identity and music in Indo-Trinidadian culture / Peter Manuel

Presencing the past and remembering the present : social features of popular music in Kenya / D.A. Masolo

Béla Bartók and the rise of comparative ethnomusicology : nationalism, race purity and the legacy of the Austro-Hungarian empire / Katie Trumpener

Racial projects and musical discourses in Trinidad, West Indies / Jocelyne Guilbault

Hot fantasies : American modernism and the idea of Black rhythm / Ronald Radano

Alban Berg, the Jews and the anxiety of genius / Sander L. Gilman

"Death is a drum" : rhythm, modernity and the Negro poet laureate / Larry Scanlon

Race, class and musical nationalism in Zimbabwe / Thomas Turino

Duke Ellington, Black, brown and beige, and the cultural politics of race / Kevin Gaines

Naming the illuminati / Christopher Holmes Smith and John Fiske

Music wars : blood and song at the end of Yugoslavia / Tomislav Longinović

The remembrance of things past : music, race and the end of history in modern Europe / Philip V. Bohlman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0226701999

0226702006

OCLC:

43555385