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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Sound Alignments 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.
Trade Review“With this vital addition to the growing literature in global music studies, the contributors to
Sound Alignments 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 *
“Giving readers a happily cacophonous remapping of the sounds of the Cold War,
Sound Alignments 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 *
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Sound Alignments 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."
-- T. S. Yamada * Choice *
“[Sound Alignments] is a highly informative and intellectually stimulating book.”
-- CedarBough T. Saeji * Pacific Affairs *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction / Michael Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason 1
Part I. Routes
1. Musical Travels of the Coconut Isles and the Socialist Popular / Jennifer Lindsay 43
2. Vehicles of Progress: The Kerala Rikshawala at the Intersection of Communism and Social Realism / Nisha Kommattam 69
3. East Asian Pop Music and an Incomplete Regional Contemporary / C.J. W.-L. Wee 93
Part II. Covers
4. Searching for Youth, the People (
Minjung), and "Another" West While Living Through Anti-Communist Cold War Politics: South Korean "Folk Song" in the 1970s / Hyunjoon Shin 131
5. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, and Sound Alignments: Covers and Cantonese Cover Songs in 1960s Hong Kong / Hon-Lun Yang 153
Part III. Fronts
6. Sonic Imaginaries of Okinawa: Daiku Tetsuhiro's Cosmopolitan "Paradise" / Marié Abe 173
7. Cosmaharaja: Popular Songs of Socialist Cosmopolitanism in Cold War India / Anna Schultz 201
8. Yellow Music Criticism during China's Anti-Rightest Campaign / Qian Zhang 231
Afterword: Asia's Soundings of the Cold War / Christine R. Yano 249
Bibliography 263
Contributors 285
Index 289
