California polyphony
Subtitle: ethnic voices, musical crossroads
By: Mina Yang.
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780252032431
Subjects: Music -- California -- History and criticism.; Ethnicity in music.; Popular music -- Social aspects -- California.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index.
Table of contents: value: The early history of California cultural and musical life; value: The transpacific gaze: orientalism, queerness, and California experimentalism; value: A thin blue line down Central Avenue: the LAPD and the demise of a musical hub; value: Noir entanglements: black music, white women, and the dark city; value: From the mission myth to Chicano nationalism: the evolution of Mestizo identities and music; value: After sa-i-ku: Korean American hip-hop since the Rodney King uprising.