Speak it louder : Asian Americans making music /

Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics -from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop - that have been created by Asian Americans.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wong, Deborah Anne
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Southeast Asian immigrants sounding off. Asian American performativities ; History, memory, re-membering ; Taking (to) the street : Cambodian immigrants in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade ; Karaoke as phantasm : mass mediation and agency in Vietnamese American popular music ; Vietnamese American technoculture in Orange County : Pham Duy at home
  • Encounters. Taking (to) the streets again : theorizing the Asian American Festival ; Listening to local practices : Asian American performance and identity politics in Riverside, California
  • New interventions. The Asian American body in performance ; Taiko in Asian America ; Just being there : making Asian American space in the recording industry ; Finding an Asian American audience : the problem of listening ; ImprovisAsians : free improvisation as Asian American resistance ; Ethnography, ethnomusicology and post-white theory ; My father's life in music.