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005    20141211183748.0
008    041208s2005    cau      bk  s001 0 eng  
010      2004029240
020    0520225104 (cloth : alk. paper)
020    0520244249 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 ML3917.U6 |bK86 2005
082 00 782.42164/0973/0904 |222
100 1  Kun, Josh. |=^A607840
245 10 Audiotopia : |bmusic, race, and America / |cJosh Kun.
260    Berkeley, CA : |bUniversity of California Press, |c©2005.
300    xv, 302 pages ; |c23 cm.
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
490 1  American crossroads ; |v18
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index.
504    Includes discography: pages 277-281.
505 0  Against easy listening, or, How to hear America sing -- The yiddish are coming -- Life according to the beat -- Basquiat's ear, Rahsaan's eye -- I, too, sing América -- Rock's reconquista.
520    Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. The author insists that America is not a single chorus of many voices folded into one, but rather various republics of sound that represent multiple stories of racial and ethnic difference. To this end he covers a range of music and listeners to evoke the ways that popular sounds have expanded our idea of American culture and American identity. Artists as diverse as The Weavers, Cafe Tacuba, Mickey Katz, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bessie Smith, and Ozomatli reveal that the song of America is endlessly hybrid, heterogeneous, and enriching--a source of comfort and strength for populations who have been taught that their lives do not matter. The author melds studies of individual musicians with studies of painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and of writers such as Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes. There is no history of race in the Americas that is not a history of popular music, the author claims. Inviting readers to listen closely and critically, this book forges a new understanding of sound that will stoke debates about music, race, identity, and culture for many years to come.
650  0 Popular music |zUnited States |xHistory and criticism. |=^A16413
650  0 Music |xSocial aspects |zUnited States. |=^A1005862
650  0 Multiculturalism |zUnited States. |=^A346998
830  0 American crossroads ; |v18. |=^A394740
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