Tropical Renditions - Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America

Informationen zum Autor Christine Bacareza Balance is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.  Klappentext Christine Bacareza Balance is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.¿ Zusammenfassung In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity! publics! and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Flip the Beat: An Introduction  1 1. Sonic Fictions  31 2. The Serious Work of Karaoke  56 3. Jessica Hagedorn's Gangster Routes  87 4. Pinoise Rock  123 Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries  155 Notes  187 Bibliography  207 Index  219

Product details

• Authors: Christine Bacareza Balance
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780822359586
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5958-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore