Claiming diaspora
Subtitle: music, transnationalism, and cultural politics in Asian/Chinese America
By: Su Zheng
Series: American musicspheres
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195134377
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- New York State -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism; Music -- United States -- History and criticism; Chinese Americans -- New York State -- New York -- Social life and customs; Group identity -- New York (State) -- New York
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, and index.
Table of contents: title: The formation of a diasporic musical culture as a site of contradiction; title: New York and the transpacific routes : music in the racialized history of Chinese American experience; title: Music here and now : a diasporic soundscape in a global city; title: From private realm to public display of multiculturalism : mapping the local geocultural processes of music production, consumption, and (re)presentations; title: "Our goal is to be in sync with other areas of the world" : transnational media culture and popular music; title: The poetics and politics of displacement : portraits of seven immigrant musicians; title: The ambiguities of cultural politics in Asian/Chinese American music discourse.