Speak it louder : Asian Americans making music / Deborah Wong.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wong, Deborah Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Asian Americans--Music--History and criticism.
• Music--Social aspects--United States.
• Music--Social aspects.
• Asians.
• Asian Americans.
• Music.
• United States.
• Asian Americans--Music.
• Music--United States.
• Asians--United States--Music.
• Ethnic music recordings, Asian American.
• Ethnic music recordings, Asian--United States.

Local Subjects:

• Ethnic music recordings, Asian American.
• Ethnic music recordings, Asian--United States.

Genre:

• Music.

Physical Description:

xii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Contents:

• Southeast Asian immigrants sounding off. Asian American performativities ; History, memory, re-membering ; Taking (to) the street : Cambodian immigrants in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade ; Karaoke as phantasm : mass mediation and agency in Vietnamese American popular music ; Vietnamese American technoculture in Orange County : Pham Duy at home
• Encounters. Taking (to) the streets again : theorizing the Asian American Festival ; Listening to local practices : Asian American performance and identity politics in Riverside, California
• New interventions. The Asian American body in performance ; Taiko in Asian America ; Just being there : making Asian American space in the recording industry ; Finding an Asian American audience : the problem of listening ; ImprovisAsians : free improvisation as Asian American resistance ; Ethnography, ethnomusicology and post-white theory ; My father's life in music.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-381) and index.

ISBN:

• 0415970393
• 0415970407

OCLC:

53435088