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.

Asian Americans.

Music--Social aspects--United States.

Music.

Music--Social aspects.

Asians.

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