Modernity's ear : listening to race and gender in world music / Roshanak Kheshti.
Modernity's ear : listening to race and gender in world music / Roshanak Kheshti.
Modernity's ear : listening to race and gender in world music / Roshanak Kheshti.
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Publisher
New York : New York University Press, [2015]
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G 2015/4572
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Language
English
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Physical content
xx, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The female sound collector and her talking machine -- Listen, Inc. : aural modernity and incorporation -- Losing the listening self in the aural other -- Racial noise, hybridity, and miscegenation in world music -- The world music culture of incorporation -- Epilogue : modernity's radical ear and th...
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Publisher
New York : New York University Press, [2015]
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Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
"Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early "songcatchers" were white women of comfortable class standing, similar to the female consumers targeted by the music industry as the gramophone bec...
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Full title
Modernity's ear : listening to race and gender in world music / Roshanak Kheshti.
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Postmillennial pop.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/4572
Record Identifier
74VKRj2qDz6d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRj2qDz6d
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ISBN
1479817864 paperback
9781479867011 hardcover
1479867012 hardcover
9781479817863 paperback
DDC
780.9
MMS ID
991023249859702626
