Modernity's ear
Subtitle: listening to race and gender in world music
By: Roshanak Kheshti
Series: Postmillennial pop; Postmillennial pop
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781479817863; 9781479867011
Subjects: Social aspects; Sound recordings; World music; Music and race
Other titles: Listening to race and gender in world music
Description: Examines the ways in which racialized and gendered sounds became fetishized and, in turn, capitalized on by an emergent American world music industry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index.
Table of contents: title: The female sound collector and her talking machine; title: Listen, Inc. : aural modernity and incorporation; title: Losing the listening self in the aural other; title: Racial noise, hybridity, and miscegenation in world music; title: The world music culture of incorporation; title: Epilogue. Modernity's radical ear and the sonic infidelity of Zora Neale Hurston's recordings.