Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars

Published by Duke University Press 2021

Sound Alignments

Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars

Edited by: Michael K. Bourdaghs , Paola Iovene and Kaley Mason

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478013143

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About this book

The 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.

Author / Editor information

Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop.

Paola Iovene is Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China.

Kaley Mason is Assistant Professor of Music at Lewis and Clark College.

Reviews

“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

"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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene and Kaley Mason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. ROUTES
1. MUSICAL TRAVELS OF THE COCONUT ISLES AND THE SOCIALIST POPULAR Jennifer Lindsay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
2. VEHICLES OF PROGRESS: 2. VEHICLES OF PROGRESS: The Kerala Rikshawala at the Intersection of Communism and Cosmopolitanism Nisha Kommattam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
3. EAST ASIAN POP MUSIC AND AN INCOMPLETE REGIONAL CONTEMPORARY C. J. W.-L. Wee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
5. COSMOPOLITANISM, VERNACULAR COSMOPOLITANISM, AND SOUND ALIGNMENTS Covers and Cantonese Cover Songs in 1960s Hong Kong Hon-Lun Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Part III. FRONTS
6. SONIC IMAGINARIES OF OKINAWA Daiku Tetsuhiro’s Cosmopolitan “Paradise” Marié Abe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
7. COSMAHARAJA Popular Songs of Socialist Cosmpolitanism in Cold War India Anna Schultz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
8. YELLOW MUSIC CRITICISM DURING CHINA’S ANTI-RIGHTIST CAMPAIGN Qian Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
AFTERWORD: Asia’s Soundings of the Cold War Christine R. Yano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 312

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Published: May 10, 2021
ISBN: 9781478013143