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Audible empire : music, global politics, critique / Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Refiguring American music.
- Refiguring American music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World music--Social aspects--History.
- World music.
- Imperialism--Social aspects--History.
- Imperialism.
- World music--Political aspects--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Audible Empire's contributors rethink the mechanisms of empire, showing how musical practice has been important to its spread around the globe. The volume's fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography to put forth music as a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374947
- 0822374943
- OCLC:
- 911518794
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