Audiotopia : music, race, and America  hbk

Josh Kun

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun insists that America is not a single chorus of many voices folded into one, but rather various republics of sound that represent multiple stories of racial and ethnic difference. To this end, he covers a range of music and listeners to evoke the ways that popular sounds have expanded our idea of American culture and American identity. Artists as diverse as The Weavers, Cafe Tacuba, Mickey Katz, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bessie Smith, and Ozomatli reveal that the song of America is endlessly hybrid, heterogeneous, and enriching - a source of comfort and strength for populations who have been taught that their lives do not matter. Kun melds studies of individual musicians with studies of painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and of writers such as Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes. There is no history of race in the Americas that is not a history of popular music, Kun claims. Inviting readers to listen closely and critically, "Audiotopia" forges a new understanding of sound that will stoke debates about music, race, identity, and culture for many years to come.

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  • Acknowledgments Introduction: Strangers among Sounds 1. Against Easy Listening, or, How to Hear America Sing 2. The Yiddish Are Coming 3. Life According to the Beat 4. Basquiat's Ear, Rahsaan's Eye 5. I, Too, Sing America 6. Rock's Reconquista Conclusion: La Misma Cancion Notes Bibliography Discography Index

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書名 Audiotopia : music, race, and America
著作者等 Kun, Josh
シリーズ名 American crossroads
巻冊次 hbk
出版元 University of California Press
刊行年月 c2005
ページ数 xv, 302 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0520225104
9780520244245
NCID BA79071334
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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