Music and the racial imagination / edited by Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman; with a foreword by Houston A. Baker.

Other author Radano, Ronald Michael editor.
Other author Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxv, 703 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music and race.

Contents Introduction : Music and race, their past, their presence / Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman -- The Asia American body in performance / Deborah Wong -- Ethnifying rhythms, feminizing cultures / Frances R. Aparicio -- "Ain't I people?" : voicing national fantasy / Brian Currid -- "Sexual pantomimes," the blues aesthetic and black women in the new South / Tera W. Hunter -- Race music : Bo Chatmon, "Corrine Corrina," and the excluded middle / Christopher A. Waterman -- Mestizaje in the Mix : Chicano identity, cultural politics and postmodern music / Rafael Pérez-Torres -- Performing decency : ethnicity and race in Andean "Mestizo" ritual dance / Zoila Mendoza -- Indonesian-Chinese oppression and the musical outcomes in the Netherlands East Indies / Margaret J. Kartomi -- Ethnic identity, national identity and music in Indo-Trinidadian culture / Peter Manuel -- Presencing the past and remembering the present : social features of popular music in Kenya / D.A. Masolo -- Béla Bartók and the rise of comparative ethnomusicology : nationalism, race purity and the legacy of the Austro-Hungarian empire / Katie Trumpener -- Racial projects and musical discourses in Trinidad, West Indies / Jocelyne Guilbault -- Hot fantasies : American modernism and the idea of Black rhythm / Ronald Radano -- Alban Berg, the Jews and the anxiety of genius / Sander L. Gilman -- "Death is a drum" : rhythm, modernity and the Negro poet laureate / Larry Scanlon -- Race, class and musical nationalism in Zimbabwe / Thomas Turino -- Duke Ellington, Black, brown and beige, and the cultural politics of race / Kevin Gaines -- Naming the illuminati / Christopher Holmes Smith and John Fiske -- Music wars : blood and song at the end of Yugoslavia / Tomislav Longinović -- The remembrance of things past : music, race and the end of history in modern Europe / Philip V. Bohlman.
Abstract "A spectre lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race". Yet the intimate relationship between race and music has rarely been examined by contemporary scholars, most of whom have abandoned it for 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 should appeal to students of culture and race across the humanities and social sciences.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00023672
ISBN0226701999 (alk. paper)
ISBN0226702006 (pbk. : alk. paper)