Soundtracks of Asian America : navigating race through musical performance / Grace Wang.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wang, Grace, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Asian Americans--Music--Social aspects.
• Asian American musicians.
• Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><I>Soundtracks of Asian America</I> explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian Americans in Western classical music, U.S. popular music, and Mandopop (Mandarin-language popular music).</div>

Contents:

• Interlopers in the realm of high culture : "music moms" and the performance of Asian difference
• "This is no monkey show" : racializing musical performance
• A love song to YouTube : celebrity and fandom online
• Finding sonic belonging abroad : reimagining Chinese American subjectivities through diaspora.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780822357841
• 0822357844
• 9780822376088
• 0822376083

OCLC:

892914364