Soundtracks of Asian America: Navigating Race through Musical Performance
- Author: Wang, Grace
Soundtracks of Asian America is an extremely articulate, insightful investigation of racial imagination as it relates to Asian Americans and Asian diasporas. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction. Soundtracks of Asian America 1
- 1. Interlopers in the Realm of High Culture: "Music Moms" and the Performance of Asian Difference 28
- 2. "This Is No Monkey Show": Racializing Musical Performance 64
- 3. A Love Song to YouTube: Celebrity and Fandom Online 101
- 4. Finding Sonic Belonging Abroad: Reimagining Chinese American Subjectivities through Diaspora 143 Epilogue. Enter the "Tiger Mother" 186 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 195 Bibliography 245 Index 257