Resounding Afro Asia by Tamara Roberts

Resounding Afro Asia by Tamara Roberts

Resounding Afro Asia examines black-Asian musical collaborations as part of a genealogy of cross-racial culture and politics in the U.S. Roberts argues these projects offer a glimpse into how artists live multiracial lives that inhabit yet exceed multicultural frameworks built on racial essentialism and segregation.

"Roberts' work offers vital insights into constructs and consequences of race and identity in music in the US and suggests more nuances articulations of the inherent complexities of this musicReaders unfamiliar with the US context still will find this work valuable as it provides a solid and accesible approach to ideas that, in some previous research, are oversimplified and lack Robert's rigour. Roberts also takes great care not to present false equivalences between the two minority groups, nor does she avoid diligent consideration of problematic definitions, tensions, exoticization, sensitivities, stereotypes, and more. In doing so, this work may carry broader implications as she presents a thorough and useful way to interrogate racial systems in their entirety, all while advancing discourses on hybridity, multiculturalism, and identity in an ever-shifting world." --2017 Yearbook For Traditional Music

Tamara Roberts Assistant Professor of Music at University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses on popular music and politics. Other publications include Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho (co-edited with Roger Buckley) and articles and essays in multiple journals and anthologies.

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ISBN 13	9780199377404
ISBN 10	0199377405
Title	Resounding Afro Asia
Author	Tamara Roberts
Series	American Musicspheres
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2016-04-07
Number of pages	248
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