Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century
Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the Twenty-21st Century is a multi-authored, collaboratively conceived book of essays that tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the United States in the early twenty-first century. This book encourages scholars in music circles and beyond to explore the intersections between social responsibility, community engagement, and academic practices through the simple act of working together. The book’s essays—written by a diverse and cross-generational group of scholars, performers, and practitioners—demonstrate how collaboration can harness complementary skills and nourish comparative boundary-crossing through interdisciplinary research. The chapters of the volume address issues of race, nationalism, mobility, cultural domination, and identity; as well as the crisis of the Trump era and the political power of music. Each contribution to the volume is written collaboratively by two scholars, bringing together contributors who represent a mix of career stages and positions. Through the practice of and reflection on collaboration, Sounding Together breaks out of long-established paradigms of solitude in humanities scholarship and works toward social justice in the study of music.

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Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century
Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the Twenty-21st Century is a multi-authored, collaboratively conceived book of essays that tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the United States in the early twenty-first century. This book encourages scholars in music circles and beyond to explore the intersections between social responsibility, community engagement, and academic practices through the simple act of working together. The book’s essays—written by a diverse and cross-generational group of scholars, performers, and practitioners—demonstrate how collaboration can harness complementary skills and nourish comparative boundary-crossing through interdisciplinary research. The chapters of the volume address issues of race, nationalism, mobility, cultural domination, and identity; as well as the crisis of the Trump era and the political power of music. Each contribution to the volume is written collaboratively by two scholars, bringing together contributors who represent a mix of career stages and positions. Through the practice of and reflection on collaboration, Sounding Together breaks out of long-established paradigms of solitude in humanities scholarship and works toward social justice in the study of music.

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Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century

Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century

Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century

Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century

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Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the Twenty-21st Century is a multi-authored, collaboratively conceived book of essays that tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the United States in the early twenty-first century. This book encourages scholars in music circles and beyond to explore the intersections between social responsibility, community engagement, and academic practices through the simple act of working together. The book’s essays—written by a diverse and cross-generational group of scholars, performers, and practitioners—demonstrate how collaboration can harness complementary skills and nourish comparative boundary-crossing through interdisciplinary research. The chapters of the volume address issues of race, nationalism, mobility, cultural domination, and identity; as well as the crisis of the Trump era and the political power of music. Each contribution to the volume is written collaboratively by two scholars, bringing together contributors who represent a mix of career stages and positions. Through the practice of and reflection on collaboration, Sounding Together breaks out of long-established paradigms of solitude in humanities scholarship and works toward social justice in the study of music.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472054336
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 08/16/2021
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music and Professor of American Studies at Harvard University.

Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Professor of Musicology at University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Charles Hiroshi Garrett Carol J. Oja 1

Cross-Cultural Encounters across Time

1 Music in Unexpected Places: Hearing New Histories of Early American Music Sarah Eyerly Rachel Wheeler 21

2 US Concert Music and Cultural Reorientation during the Occupation of Japan: A Bicultural Perspective Misako Ohta Carol J. Oja 51

3 Listening to and Learning from Music of the Global United States Panayotis League Kay Kaufman Shelemay 82

Performance and Social Justice

4 Sounding Black, Acting White: Hearing Race and Racism in Gospel Performance Braxton D. Shelley 113

Lift Every Voice? White Domination Still Matters, Even in Sacred Space: A Sociologist's Reflection on "Sounding Black, Acting White" Cheryl Townsend Gilkes 138

5 For the Daughters of Harlem: Bridging Campus and Community through Sound Ellie M. Hisama Lucie Vágnerová 145

6 The Law of Returns: Muhal Richard Abrams and Vijay Iyer in Conversation 174

The Politics of Historiography

7 White Noise: Historiographical Exceptionalism and the Construction of a White American Music History Glenda Goodman Samuel Parler 207

8 Exceptional Matters, Exceptional Times: A Conversation about the Challenges of US Music Scholarship in the Age of Black Lives Matter and Trump Josh Kun Alejandro L. Madrid 239

9 Music, Travel, and Circuitous Reflections of Community Monica A. Hershberger Sarah Suhadolnik 264

Reaching Outward as Teachers and Scholars

10 Pedagogies of Music, Politics, and Race in US Music Studies Loren Kajikawa Daniel Martinez Hosang 287

11 Finding Success inside and outside the Academy Michael Sy Uy Naomi André 310

12 Collaborative Voices: Reimagining US Music Scholarship after AmeriGrove II Charles Hiroshi Garrett Daniel Goldmark 334

Contributors 357

Index 363

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