Music and the Racial Imagination / Edition 1

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Overview

"A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race," write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relationship between race and music has rarely been examined by contemporary scholars, most of whom have abandoned it for the more enlightened notions of ethnicity and culture. Here, a distinguished group of contributors confront the issue head on. Representing an unusually broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions, they critically examine how the imagination of race has influenced musical production, reception, and scholarly analysis, even as they reject the objectivity of the concept itself.

Each essay follows the lead of the substantial introduction, which reviews the history of race in European and American, non-Western and global musics, placing it within the contexts of the colonial experience and the more recent formation of "world music." Offering a bold, new revisionist agenda for musicology in a postmodern, postcolonial world, this book will appeal to students of culture and race across the humanities and social sciences.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226702001
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 3/28/2001
  • Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
  • Edition description: 1
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 703
  • Sales rank: 1,162,666
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Ronald M. Radano is an associate professor of Afro-American studies and music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Philip V. Bohlman is a professor of music and Jewish studies at the University of Chicago.

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Music and Race, Their Past, Their Presence 1
1 The Asian American Body in Performance 57
2 Ethnifying Rhythms, Feminizing Cultures 95
3 "Ain't I People?": Voicing National Fantasy 113
4 "Sexual Pantomimes," the Blues Aesthetic, and Black Women in the New South 145
5 Race Music: Bo Chatmon, "Corrine Corrina," and the Excluded Middle 167
6 Mestizaje in the Mix: Chicano Identity, Cultural Politics, and Postmodern Music 206
7 Performing Decency: Ethnicity and Race in Andean "Mestizo" Ritual Dance 231
8 Indonesian-Chinese Oppression and the Musical Outcomes in the Netherlands East Indies 271
9 Ethnic Identity, National Identity, and Music in Indo-Trinidadian Culture 318
10 Presencing the Past and Remembering the Present: Social Features of Popular Music in Kenya 349
11 Bela Bartok and the Rise of Comparative Ethnomusicology: Nationalism, Race Purity, and the Legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 403
12 Racial Projects and Musical Discourses in Trinidad, West Indies 435
13 Hot Fantasies: American Modernism and the Idea of Black Rhythm 459
14 Alban Berg, the Jews, and the Anxiety of Genius 483
15 "Death is a Drum": Rhythm, Modernity, and the Negro Poet Laureate 510
16 Race, Class, and Musical Nationalism in Zimbabwe 554
17 Duke Ellington, Black, Brown and Beige, and the Cultural Politics of Race 585
18 Naming the Illuminati 605
19 Music Wars: Blood and Song at the End of Yugoslavia 622
20 The Remembrance of Things Past: Music, Race, and the End of History in Modern Europe 644
List of Contributors 677
Index 681
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