{"product_id":"tropical-renditions-9780822359586","title":"Tropical Renditions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTropical Renditions\u003c\/i\u003e Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Balance’s book is a major contribution to a flowering of contemporary scholarship on the Filipino diaspora and musical performance.  . . . From DJing and karaoke to performance art and indie Pinoise rock, Balance’s book draws out the rich implications of such musical scenes, and in doing so, shows how Filipino America has been made, and made uniquely meaningful, through music.\" -- Victor Bascara * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"With her careful survey of ethnographic texts and implicit use of ethnographic research techniques, Balance sets a new standard for accounts of popular music culture in performance studies.\" -- Neal Matherne * Ethnomusicology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTropical Renditions\u003c\/i\u003e offers a script from which to begin rehearsing a multiscalar phonography of place, race, and music that is . . . relentlessly and productively disobedient.\" -- Anjeline de Dios * Southeast Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"A gift to the fields of Asian studies, sound studies, and cultural studies, speaking between and across each in order to posit a theory of sound that is attuned to the affective and sociopolitical contours of the Filipinx diasporic experience. . . . Seminal in its theorizing of the social conditions that dictate how the Filipinx performing body is consumed.\" -- Casey Mecija * 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 Flip the Beat: An Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sonic Fictions  31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Serious Work of Karaoke  56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Jessica Hagedorn's Gangster Routes  87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pinoise Rock  123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries  155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  219","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406089986391,"sku":"9780822359586","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822359586.jpg?v=1730494491","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tropical-renditions-9780822359586","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}