Claiming diaspora : music, transnationalism, and cultural politics in Asian/Chinese America /
by Su Zheng .
- 1st ed.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- xxiii, 422 p. : ill., maps, music ; 25 cm.
- American musicspheres .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-397), filmography and discography (p. [399]-402), and index.
The formation of a diasporic musical culture as a site of contradiction -- New York and the transpacific routes : music in the racialized history of Chinese American experience -- Music here and now : a diasporic soundscape in a global city -- From private realm to public display of multiculturalism : mapping the local geocultural processes of music production, consumption, and (re)presentations -- "Our goal is to be in sync with other areas of the world" : transnational media culture and popular music -- The poetics and politics of displacement : portraits of seven immigrant musicians -- The ambiguities of cultural politics in Asian/Chinese American music discourse.
Chinese Americans.--Music.--History and criticism.--New York (State).--New York Music--History and criticism.--United States Chinese Americans.--Social life and customs..--New York (State).--New York Group identity.--New York (State).--New York.