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Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
Ronald Radano
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Description for Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Radano, Ronald M.; Olaniyan, Tejumola. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 432 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 634.
Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography, and include topics such as the affective relationship between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the sonic landscape of the U.S.- Mexico border; the critiques of post-9/11 U.S. empire by desi rappers; and the role of tonality in ... Read more
Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography, and include topics such as the affective relationship between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the sonic landscape of the U.S.- Mexico border; the critiques of post-9/11 U.S. empire by desi rappers; and the role of tonality in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Refiguring American Music
Condition
New
Weight
633g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360124
SKU
V9780822360124
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About Ronald Radano
Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music. Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.
Reviews for Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
A welcome publication, adding the subjectivity and fluidity of music, sound, and listening to an already complex network of scholarly explorations about processes of empire formation. . . . This volume brings to the foreground more than an array of perspectives on the audible aspects of empire formation; it highlights the many tensions that are involved in writing history and ... Read more