Tropical Renditions

Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America

AvChristine Bacareza Balance

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identities, publics, and politics. To understand this dynamic, Balance advocates for a "disobedient listening" that reveals how Filipino musicians challenge dominant racialized U.S. imperialist tropes of Filipinos as primitive, childlike, derivative, and mimetic. Balance disobediently listens to how the Bay Area turntablist DJ group the Invisibl Skratch Piklz bear the burden of racialized performers in the United States and defy conventions on musical ownership; to karaoke as affective labor, aesthetic expression, and pedagogical instrument; to how writer and performer Jessica Hagedorn's collaborative and improvisational authorial voice signals the importance of migration and place; and how Pinoy indie rock scenes challenge the relationship between race and musical genre by tracing the alternative routes that popular music takes. In each instance Filipino musicians, writers, visual artists, and filmmakers work within and against the legacies of the U.S./Philippine imperial encounter, and in so doing, move beyond preoccupations with authenticity and offer new ways to reimagine tropical places.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Refiguring American Music
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822360018

Utforska kategorier

Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Migration inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Christine Bacareza Balance is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Recensioner i media

"Balance’s book is a major contribution to a flowering of contemporary scholarship on the Filipino diaspora and musical performance. . . . From DJing and karaoke to performance art and indie Pinoise rock, Balance’s book draws out the rich implications of such musical scenes, and in doing so, shows how Filipino America has been made, and made uniquely meaningful, through music." - Victor Bascara (Pacific Affairs) "With her careful survey of ethnographic texts and implicit use of ethnographic research techniques, Balance sets a new standard for accounts of popular music culture in performance studies." - Neal Matherne (Ethnomusicology) "Tropical Renditions offers a script from which to begin rehearsing a multiscalar phonography of place, race, and music that is . . . relentlessly and productively disobedient." - Anjeline de Dios (Southeast Asian Studies) "A gift to the fields of Asian studies, sound studies, and cultural studies, speaking between and across each in order to posit a theory of sound that is attuned to the affective and sociopolitical contours of the Filipinx diasporic experience. . . . Seminal in its theorizing of the social conditions that dictate how the Filipinx performing body is consumed." - Casey Mecija (Journal of the Society for American Music)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ixFlip the Beat: An Introduction 11. Sonic Fictions 312. The Serious Work of Karaoke 563. Jessica Hagedorn's Gangster Routes 874. Pinoise Rock 123Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries 155Notes 187Bibliography 207Index 219