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Author Yang, Mina

Title California polyphony : ethnic voices, musical crossroads / Mina Yang
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Contents The early history of California cultural and musical life -- The transpacific gaze: orientalism, queerness, and California experimentalism -- A thin blue line down Central Avenue: the LAPD and the demise of a musical hub -- Noir entanglements: black music, white women, and the dark city -- From the mission myth to Chicano nationalism: the evolution of Mestizo identities and music -- After sa-i-ku: Korean American hip-hop since the Rodney King uprising
Summary What does it mean to be "Californian"? Mina Yang suggests an answer that lies at the intersection of musicology, cultural history, and politics. Consisting of a series of musical case studies of major ethnic groups in California, this book approaches the notion of Californian identity from diverse perspectives, each nuanced by class, gender, and sexuality. This most populous and most affluent state in the Union has been setting musical and cultural trends for decades, and Yang's study thoughtfully illuminates the multiculutral nature of its musics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-178) and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Music -- California -- History and criticism
Ethnicity in music.
Popular music -- Social aspects -- California
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
MUSIC -- General.
Ethnicity in music
Music
Popular music -- Social aspects
California
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019717408
ISBN 9780252092978
025209297X
1283155613
9781283155618
9786613155610
6613155616