Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
Contents:
Introduction. Soundtracks of Asian America; One. Interlopers in the Realm of High Culture: "Music Moms" and the Performance of Asian Difference; Two. "This Is No Monkey Show": Racializing Musical Performance; Three. A Love Song to YouTube: Celebrity and Fandom Online; Four. Finding Sonic Belonging Abroad: Reimagining Chinese American Subjectivities through Diaspora; Epilogue. Enter the "Tiger Mother"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary:
Soundtracks of Asian America explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian Americans in Western classical music, U.S. popular music, and Mandopop (Mandarin-language popular music)
Topic:
Asian Americans--Music--Social aspects Search this
