{"product_id":"sound-alignments-9781478010678","title":"Sound Alignments","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eSound Alignments\u003c\/i\u003e explore the myriad forms of popular music in Asia during the Cold War, showing how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across the region and forged and challenged alliances, revolutions, and countercultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With this vital addition to the growing literature in global music studies, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eSound Alignments\u003c\/i\u003e reveal the vernacular cosmopolitanism of Asian popular music as a crucial dimension of Cold War cultural politics, nationalist policies, and internationalist rhetorics. An essential mapping of sonic history and musical mediation.” -- David Novak, author of * Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation *\u003cbr\u003e“Giving readers a happily cacophonous remapping of the sounds of the Cold War, \u003ci\u003eSound Alignments\u003c\/i\u003e is an intellectually stimulating and multidimensional contribution to the study of twentieth-century popular music and the global culture of the Cold War.” -- Andrew F. Jones, author of * Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSound Alignments\u003c\/i\u003e deserves recognition for tackling the 'mutually entangled structures' produced by the 'processes of imperialization, colonization, and the cold war' that have shaped an imaginary Asia (p. 212). . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- T. S. Yamada * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eSound Alignments\u003c\/i\u003e] is a highly informative and intellectually stimulating book.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- CedarBough T. Saeji * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Michael Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Routes\u003cbr\u003e 1. Musical Travels of the Coconut Isles and the Socialist Popular \/ Jennifer Lindsay  43\u003cbr\u003e 2. Vehicles of Progress: The Kerala Rikshawala at the Intersection of Communism and Social Realism \/ Nisha Kommattam  69\u003cbr\u003e 3. East Asian Pop Music and an Incomplete Regional Contemporary \/ C.J. W.-L. Wee  93\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Covers\u003cbr\u003e 4. Searching for Youth, the People (\u003ci\u003eMinjung\u003c\/i\u003e), and \"Another\" West While Living Through Anti-Communist Cold War Politics: South Korean \"Folk Song\" in the 1970s \/ Hyunjoon Shin  131\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, and Sound Alignments: Covers and Cantonese Cover Songs in 1960s Hong Kong \/ Hon-Lun Yang  153\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Fronts\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sonic Imaginaries of Okinawa: Daiku Tetsuhiro's Cosmopolitan \"Paradise\" \/ Marié Abe  173\u003cbr\u003e 7. Cosmaharaja: Popular Songs of Socialist Cosmopolitanism in Cold War India \/ Anna Schultz  201\u003cbr\u003e 8. Yellow Music Criticism during China's Anti-Rightest Campaign \/ Qian Zhang  231\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Asia's Soundings of the Cold War \/ Christine R. Yano  249\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  263\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  285\u003cbr\u003e Index  289","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408988938583,"sku":"9781478010678","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478010678.jpg?v=1730504986","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sound-alignments-9781478010678","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}