TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zheng,Su
TI  - Claiming diaspora: music, transnationalism, and cultural politics in Asian/Chinese America 
T2  - American musicspheres
SN  - 9780199722822
AV  - ML3560.C5 
U1  - 780.89/951073 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Chinese Americans
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - United States
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Group identity
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Genres & Styles
KW  - Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references, filmography and discography, and index; Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Musical Examples; List of Tables; Technical Notes; 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 Music7. The Poetics and Politics of Displacement: Portraits of Seven Immigrant Musicians; 8. The Ambiguities of Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese American Music Discourse; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; W; X; Y; Z; Notes
N2  - Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to the work of recent avant-garde composers, author Su Zheng reveals the rich and diverse musical activities among Chinese Americans and tells of the struggles of Chinese Americans to gain a foothold in the American cultural terrain. She not only tells their stories, but also examines the
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