Speak it Louder : Asian Americans Making Music

ISBN-13: 9780415970402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str.

Deborah Wong

Opis

Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics -from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop - that have been created by Asian Americans. This book is not about Asian American music but rather about Asian Americans making music. This key distinction allows the author to track a wide range of musical genres from Cambodian music drama and karaoke, to Vietnamese pop and Asian American hip hop.

Recenzje

"[Speak It Louder] is a remarkable and important achievement and is no doubt poised to be a significant influence in the worlds of musicology and ethnic studies." --Women & Music

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Southeast Asian Immigrants Sounding Off Chapter 1: Asian American Performativities Chapter 2: History, Memory, Re-Membering Chapter 3: Taking (to) the Street: Cambodian Immigrants in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade Chapter 4: Karaoke as Phantasm: Mass Mediation and Agency in Vietnamese American Popular Music Chapter 5: Vietnamese American Technoculture in Orange County: Pham Duy at Home II. Encounters Chapter 6: Taking (to) the Streets Again: Theorizing the Asian American Festival Chapter 7: Listening to Local Practices: Asian American Performance and Identity Politics in Riverside, California III. New Interventions Chapter 8: The Asian American Body in Performance Chapter 9: Taiko in Asian America Chapter 10: Just Being There: Making Asian American Space in the Recording Industry Chapter 11: Finding an Asian American Audience: The Problem of Listening. Chapter 12: ImprovisAsians: Free Improvisation as Asian American Resistance Chapter 13: Ethnography, Ethnomusicology, and Post-White Theory Chapter 14: My Father's Life in Music. Appendix A: "Thinking of the Old Village," by Khamvong Insixiengmai (transcription and translation) Bibliography

O autorze

Deborah Wong is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Riverside. She is a widely recognized authority on Asian and Asian American music and performance, popular media, and cultural studies. She resides in Riverside, CA.