Wong, Deborah Anne,

Speak it louder : Asian Americans making music / Deborah Wong. - xii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (12 cm)

Accompanied by: 1 audio disc (CD)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-381) and index.

Asian American performativities -- History, memory, re-membering -- Taking (to) the street : Cambodian immigrants in the Philadelphia mummers parade -- Karaoke, mass mediation and agency in Vietnamese American popular music -- Pham Duy at home : Vietnamese American technoculture in orange county -- Making space, making noise : locating Asian American resistance in the festival -- Listening to local practices : performance and identity politics in Riverside, California -- 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 -- "Thinking about the old village" (Khit haut baan kao). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

0415970393 9780415970396 0415970407 9780415970402

2003024527


Asian Americans--Music--History and criticism
Music--Social aspects--United States

ML3560.A85 / W66 2004

780.8995073