Title Soundtracks of Asian America : navigating race through musical performance / Grace Wang

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations Contents Interlopers in the realm of high culture : "music moms" and the performance of Asian difference -- "This is no monkey show" : racializing musical performance -- A love song to YouTube : celebrity and fandom online -- Finding sonic belonging abroad : reimagining Chinese American subjectivities through diaspora 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) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Asian Americans -- Music -- Social aspects Asian American musicians. Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. Asian American musicians Stereotypes (Social psychology) United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822376088 0822376083

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