Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography, and include topics such as the affective relationship between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the sonic landscape of the U.S.– Mexico border; the critiques of post-9/11 U.S. empire by desi rappers; and the role of tonality in the colonization of Africa. Whether focusing on Argentine tango, theorizing anticolonialist sound, or examining the music industry of postapartheid South Africa, the contributors show how the audible has been a central component in the creation of imperialist notions of reason, modernity, and culture. In doing so, they allow us to hear how empire is both made and challenged.
Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Philip V. Bohlman. Michael Denning, Brent Hayes Edwards, Nan Enstad, Andrew Jones, Josh Kun, Morgan Luker, Jairo Moreno, Tejumola Olaniyan, Marc Perry, Ronald Radano, Nitasha Sharma, Micol Seigel, Gavin Steingo, Penny Von Eschen, Amanda Weidman.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Hearing Empire—Imperial Listening
- Part I. Technologies of Circulation
- 1. Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music
- 2. Smoking Hot: Cigarettes, Jazz, and the Production of Global Imaginaries in Interwar Shanghai
- 3. Circuit Listening: Grace Chang and the Dawn of the Chinese 1960s
- Part II. Audible Displacements
- 4. The Aesthetics of Allá: Listening Like a Sonidero
- 5. Sound Legacy: Elsie Houston
- 6. Imperial Aurality: Jazz, the Archive, and U.S. Empire
- 7. Where They Came From: Reracializing Music in the Empire of Silence
- PART III. Cultural Policies and Politics in the Sound Market
- 8. Di Eagle and di Bear: Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Cold War?
- 9. Currents of Revolutionary Confluence: A View from Cuba’s Hip Hop Festival
- 10. Tango as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Development, Diversity, and the Values of Music in Buenos Aires
- 11. Musical Economies of the Elusive Metropolis
- Part IV. Anticolonialism
- 12. The Sound of Anticolonialism
- 13. Rap, Race, Revolution: Post-9/11 Brown and a Hip Hop Critique of Empire
- 14. Echo and Anthem: Representing Sound, Music, and Difference in Two Colonial Modern Novels
- 15. Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa
- Discography
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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