Grace Wang

Soundtracks of Asian America

Navigating Race through Musical Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Soundtracks of Asian America 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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822357698
• ISBN-10: 0822357690
• Artikelnr.: 40702679

Autorenporträt

Grace Wang

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Soundtracks of Asian America 1
1. Interlopers in the Realm of High Culture: "Music Moms" and the
Performance of Asian Difference 28
2. "This Is No Monkey Show": Racializing Musical Performance 64
3. A Love Song to YouTube: Celebrity and Fandom Online 101
4. Finding Sonic Belonging Abroad: Reimagining Chinese American
Subjectivities through Diaspora 143
Epilogue. Enter the "Tiger Mother" 186
Acknowledgments 193
Notes 195
Bibliography 245
Index 257