Beyond Exoticism

Timothy D Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In Beyond Exoticism , Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures' understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorpora... Lees meer

Unfree Masters

Matt Stahl

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation.... Lees meer

The Race of Sound

Nina Sun Eidsheim

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are soc... Lees meer

Everything Man

Shana L Redmond

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's greatest... Lees meer

The Political Force of Musical Beauty

Barry Shank

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In The Political Force of Musical Beauty , Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creat... Lees meer

Negro Soy Yo

Marc D Perry

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolu... Lees meer

Musical Echoes

Carol Ann Muller, Sathima Bea Benjamin

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know Ame... Lees meer

Buena Vista in the Club

Geoffrey Baker

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In Buena Vista in the Club , Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its part... Lees meer

On Site, In Sound

Kirstie A Dorr

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In On Site, In Sound Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound up in perceptions and constructions of ... Lees meer

The Political Force of Musical Beauty

Barry Shank

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In The Political Force of Musical Beauty , Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creat... Lees meer

Audible Empire

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music i... Lees meer

Dreams in Double Time

Jonathan Leal

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. ... Lees meer

B Jenkins

Fred Moten

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000.... Lees meer

Recording Culture

Christopher A Scales

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• Recording is central to the musical lives of contemporary powwow singers yet, until now, their aesthetic practices when recording have been virtually ... Lees meer

The Great Woman Singer

Licia Fiol-Matta

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers--Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez--to explor... Lees meer

Sounds of Crossing

Alex E Chávez

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of h... Lees meer

Legions of Boom

Oliver Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, In... Lees meer

The Race of Sound

Nina Sun Eidsheim

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are soc... Lees meer

Tropical Renditions

Christine Bacareza Balance

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popul... Lees meer

Soul Covers

Michael Awkward

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers-Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow-used cover songs to... Lees meer

Dreams in Double Time

Jonathan Leal

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. ... Lees meer

Sounds of Crossing

Alex E Chávez

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of h... Lees meer

Roll With It

Matt Sakakeeny

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These youn... Lees meer

Roll With It

Matt Sakakeeny

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These youn... Lees meer