Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America

Contents

• Figures
• Tables
• Musical Examples
• Technical Notes
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Formation of a Diasporic Musical Culture as a Site of Contradiction
• 3. New York and the Transpacific Routes: Music in the Racialized History of Chinese American
• Experience
• 4. Music Here and Now: A Diasporic Soundscape in a Global City
• 5. From Private Realm to Public Display of Multiculturalism: Mapping the Local Geocultural
• Processes of Music Production, Consumption, and (Re)Presentations
• 6. Our Goal Is to Be in Sync with Other Areas of the World: Transnational Media Culture and
• Popular Music
• 7. The Poetics and Politics of Displacement: Portraits of Seven Immigrant Musicians
• 8. The Ambiguities of Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese American Music Discourse
• Notes
• Appendix I. Chinese American Musical Groups in the New York/New Jersey/Greater New
• York Metropolitan Area
• Appendix II. Sheung Chi Ng's Taishan Muyu Song Repertories
• Appendix III. Complete Chinese Texts of Poems and Lyrics Cited
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Discography
• Filmography
• Index