Audible empire : music, global politics, critique / Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radano, Ronald Michael, editor.

Olaniyan, Tejumola, editor.

Series:

Refiguring American music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World music--Social aspects--History.

World music.

Imperialism--Social aspects--History.

Imperialism.

World music--Political aspects--History.

History.

Imperialism--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Genre:

World music.

Physical Description:

xi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [2016].

Summary:

Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography, and include topics such as the affective relationship between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the sonic landscape of the U.S.- Mexico border; the critiques of post-9/11 U.S. empire by desi rappers; and the role of tonality in the colonization of Africa. Whether focusing on Argentine tango, theorizing anticolonialist sound, or examining the music industry of postapartheid South Africa, the contributors show how the audible has been a central component in the creation of imperialist notions of reason, modernity, and culture. In doing so, they allow us to hear how empire is both made and challenged. Book jacket.

Contents:

Decolonizing the ear : the transcolonial reverberations of vernacular phonograph music / Michael Denning

Smoking hot : cigarettes, jazz, and the production of global imaginaries in interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad

Circuit listening : Grace Chang and the dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones

The Aesthetics of Allá : listening like a sonidero / Josh Kun

Sound legacy : Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel

Imperial aurality : jazz, the archive, and U.S. empire / Jairo Moreno

Where they came from : reracializing music in the empire of silence / Philip V. Bohlman

Di eagle and di bear : who gets to tell the story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen

Currents of revolutionary confluence : a view from Cuba's hip hop festival / Marc Perry

Tango as intangible cultural heritage : development, diversity, and the values of music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker

Musical economies of the elusive metropolis / Gavin Steingo

The sound of anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards

Rap, race, revolution : post-9/11 Brown and a hip hop critique of empire / Nitasha Sharma

Echo and anthem : representing sound, music, and difference in two colonial modern novels / Amanda Weidman

Tonality as a colonizing force in Africa / Kofi Agawu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822359869

0822359863

9780822360124

0822360128

9780822374947

0822374943

OCLC:

911518794