Audiotopia Music, Race, and America

Name: Audiotopia Music, Race, and America
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ISBN: 9780520244245

ISBN-10: 0520244249

ISBN-13: 9780520244245

Edition: 2006

Authors: Josh Kun

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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, Cafeacute; Tacuba, Mickey Katz, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bessie Smith, and Ozomatli reveal that the song of…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 319
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Strangers among Sounds



Against Easy Listening, or, How to Hear America Sing



The Yiddish Are Coming



Life According to the Beat



Basquiat's Ear, Rahsaan's Eye



I, Too, Sing America



Rock's Reconquista


Conclusion: La Misma Cancion


Notes


Bibliography


Discography


Index