Claiming diaspora : music, transnationalism, and cultural politics in Asian/Chinese America / Su Zheng.

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Main Author: Zheng, Su
Language:English
Chinese
Language and/or Writing System:
Chinese text of cited works in appendix.
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:American musicspheres.
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > New York (State) > New York > Music > History and criticism.
Music > United States > History and criticism.
Chinese Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social life and customs.
Group identity > New York (State) > New York.
Physical Description:xxiii, 422 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The formation of a diasporic musical culture as a site of contradiction
  • New York and the transpacific routes : music in the racialized history of Chinese American experience
  • Music here and now : a diasporic soundscape in a global city
  • From private realm to public display of multiculturalism : mapping the local geocultural processes of music production, consumption, and (re)presentations
  • "Our goal is to be in sync with other areas of the world" : transnational media culture and popular music
  • The poetics and politics of displacement : portraits of seven immigrant musicians
  • The ambiguities of cultural politics in Asian/Chinese American music discourse.