Resounding Afro Asia : interracial music and the politics of collaboration / Tamara Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Tamara, author.

Contributor:

Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

Series:

American musicspheres

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and race--United States.

Music and race.

Asian Americans--Music--History and criticism.

Asian Americans.

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Music.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Cultural Hybridity is a Celebrated Hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked-and marketed-under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention: these projects instead foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound in the very face of the ghettoizing culture industry. Giving voice to four contemporary projects, author Tamara Roberts traces black/Asian engagements that reach across the United States are beyond: Funkadesi, Yoko Noge, Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble, and Red Baraat. From Indian funk & reggae to Japanese folk & blues, to jazz in various Asiam and African traditions, to Indian brass and New Orleans second line, these artists live multiracial lives in which they inhabit-and yet exceed-multicultural frameworks built on essentialism and segregation. When these musicians collaborate, they generate and perform racially marked sounds that do not conform to their racial identities. The Afro Asian artists discussed in this book splinter the expectations of racial determinism, and through improvisation and composition, articulate new identities and subjectivities in conversation with each other. These dynamic social, aesthetic, and sonic practices construct a forum for the negotiation of racial and cultural difference and the formation of inter-minority solidarities. Resounding Afro Asia joins a growing body of literature that is writing Asian American artists back into U.S. popular music history, while highlighting interracial engagements that have fueled U.S. music making. The book will appeal to scholars of music, ethnomusicology, race theory, and politics, as well as those interested in race and popular music. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Echoes of the future

This strange amalgamation : Afro Asian roots

Becoming Afro Asian : Yoko Noge's Jazz me blues and Japanesque

Articulating interracial space : Funkadesi's One family

Sonic identity politics : Fred Ho's Afro Asian music ensemble

Toward an Afro Asian theory of critique : the addictive case

Conclusion : Red Baraat and other reverberations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

ISBN:

9780199377411

9780199377404

0199377405

0199377413

OCLC:

927141254

Publisher Number:

99967315978