Music and the racial imagination / edited by Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman; with a foreword by Houston A. Baker.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.

Format/Description:

Book
xv, 703 p. : ill, maps ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Music and race.

Contents:

Introduction : Music and race, their past, their presence / Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman
The Asia American body in performance / Deborah Wong
Ethnifying rhythms, feminizing cultures / Frances R. Aparicio
"Ain't I people?" : voicing national fantasy / Brian Currid
"Sexual pantomimes," the blues aesthetic and black women in the new South / Tera W. Hunter
Race music : Bo Chatmon, "Corrine Corrina," and the excluded middle / Christopher A. Waterman
Mestizaje in the Mix : Chicano identity, cultural politics and postmodern music / Rafael Pérez-Torres
Performing decency : ethnicity and race in Andean "Mestizo" ritual dance / Zoila Mendoza
Indonesian-Chinese oppression and the musical outcomes in the Netherlands East Indies / Margaret J. Kartomi
Ethnic identity, national identity and music in Indo-Trinidadian culture / Peter Manuel
Presencing the past and remembering the present : social features of popular music in Kenya / D.A. Masolo
Béla Bartók and the rise of comparative ethnomusicology : nationalism, race purity and the legacy of the Austro-Hungarian empire / Katie Trumpener
Racial projects and musical discourses in Trinidad, West Indies / Jocelyne Guilbault
Hot fantasies : American modernism and the idea of Black rhythm / Ronald Radano
Alban Berg, the Jews and the anxiety of genius / Sander L. Gilman
"Death is a drum" : rhythm, modernity and the Negro poet laureate / Larry Scanlon
Race, class and musical nationalism in Zimbabwe / Thomas Turino
Duke Ellington, Black, brown and beige, and the cultural politics of race / Kevin Gaines
Naming the illuminati / Christopher Holmes Smith and John Fiske
Music wars : blood and song at the end of Yugoslavia / Tomislav Longinović
The remembrance of things past : music, race and the end of history in modern Europe / Philip V. Bohlman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Contributor:

Radano, Ronald Michael.
Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-
Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0226701999 (alk. paper)
0226702006 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

43555385

Web link:

The Class of 1932 Fund Home Page

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