{"product_id":"audible-empire-9780822359869","title":"Audible Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudible Empire\u003c\/i\u003e's contributors rethink the mechanisms of empire, showing how musical practice has been important to its spread around the globe. The volume's fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography to put forth music as a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Empire,' for most of these authors, is not restrained to political empires. Instead, it entails a broad understanding of declining national sovereignty, modern capitalism, and multinational enterprises, all reflected by and in sound. That gaze alone makes this a dynamic and interesting book for historians to consult.\" -- Jessica Gienow-Hecht * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Audible Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a project admirably conceived and executed, consistent in its compelling, well-written, and timely scholarship.\" -- Ruth E. Rosenberg * Notes *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAudible Empire\u003c\/i\u003e . . . offers a complex, far-reaching, and sophisticated set of perspectives for considering various constructions of empire and a wide range of sonic acts that have been and continue to be interconnected.\" -- Sindhumathi Revuluri * Music and Letters *\u003cbr\u003e\"A welcome publication, adding the subjectivity and fluidity of music, sound, and listening to an already complex network of scholarly explorations about processes of empire formation. . . . This volume brings to the foreground more than an array of perspectives on the audible aspects of empire formation; it highlights the many tensions that are involved in writing history and thinking historically, about empires and about music making in general.\" -- Cristina Magaldi * Journal of the Society for American Music *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Hearing Empire—Imperial Listening \/ Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Technologies of Circulation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music \/ Michael Denning  25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Smoking Hot: Cigarettes, Jazz, and the Production of Global Imaginaries in Interwar Shanghai \/ Nan Enstad  45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Circuit Listening: Grace Chang and the Dawn of the Chinese 1960s \/ Andrew F. Jones  66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Audible Displacements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Aesthetics of Allá: Listening Like a Sonidero \/ Josh Kun  95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sound Legacy: Elsie Houston \/ Micol Seigel  116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Imperial Aurality: Jazz, the Archive, and U.S. Empire \/ Jairo Moreno  135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Where They Came From: Reracializing Music in the Empire of Silence \/ Philip V. Bohlman  161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Cultural Policies and Politics in the Sound Market\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Di Eagle and di Bear: Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Cold War? \/ Penny Von Eschen  187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Currents of Revolutionary Confluence: A View from Cuba's Hip Hop Festival \/ Marc Perry  209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Tango as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Development, Diversity, and the Values of Music in Buenos Aires \/ Morgan James Luker  225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Musical Economies of the Elusive Metropolis \/ Gavin Steingo  246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Anticolonialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Sound of Anticolonialism \/ Brent Hayes Edwards  269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Rap, Race, Revolution: Post-9\/11 Brown and a Hip Hop Critique of Empire \/ Nitasha Sharma  292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. Echo and Anthem: Representing Sound, Music, and Difference in Two Colonial Modern Novels \/ Amanda Weidman  314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa \/ Kofi Agawu  334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Discography  357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  397","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406090871127,"sku":"9780822359869","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822359869.jpg?v=1730494493","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/audible-empire-9780822359869","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}