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Informationen zum Autor Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan, editors Klappentext 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 the colonization of Africa. Whether focusing on Argentine tango, theorizing anticolonialist sound, or examining the music industry of postapartheid South Africa, the contributors show how the audible has been a central component in the creation of imperialist notions of reason, modernity, and culture. In doing so, they allow us to hear how empire is both made and challenged.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Philip V. Bohlman. Michael Denning, Brent Hayes Edwards, Nan Enstad, Andrew Jones, Josh Kun, Morgan Luker, Jairo Moreno, Tejumola Olaniyan, Marc Perry, Ronald Radano, Nitasha Sharma, Micol Seigel, Gavin Steingo, Penny Von Eschen, Amanda Weidman. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Hearing Empire—Imperial Listening / Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan 1 Part I. Technologies of Circulation 1. Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music / Michael Denning 25 2. Smoking Hot: Cigarettes, Jazz, and the Production of Global Imaginaries in Interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad 45 3. Circuit Listening: Grace Chang and the Dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones 66 Part II. Audible Displacements 4. The Aesthetics of Allá: Listening Like a Sonidero / Josh Kun 95 5. Sound Legacy: Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel 116 6. Imperial Aurality: Jazz, the Archive, and U.S. Empire / Jairo Moreno 135 7. Where They Came From: Reracializing Music in the Empire of Silence / Philip V. Bohlman 161 Part III. Cultural Policies and Politics in the Sound Market 8. Di Eagle and di Bear: Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen 187 9. Currents of Revolutionary Confluence: A View from Cuba's Hip Hop Festival / Marc Perry 209 10. Tango as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Development, Diversity, and the Values of Music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker 225 11. Musical Economies of the Elusive Metropolis / Gavin Steingo 246 Part IV. Anticolonialism 12. The Sound of Anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards 269 13. Rap, Race, Revolution: Post-9/11 Brown and a Hip Hop Critique of Empire / Nitasha Sharma 292 14. Echo and Anthem: Representing Sound, Music, and Difference in Two Colonial Modern Novels / Amanda Weidman 314 15. Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa / Kofi Agawu 334 Discography 357 Bibliography 361 Contributors 391 Index 397...
