Ronald Radano
Biographic Data
| ID | 374838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Radano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Radano |
| SIGNATURE | RADANO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891–1961: Scholars, Singers, Missionaries Anna Maria Busse Berger
Anna Maria Busse Berger introduces her thoughtful new study by recounting a childhood experience that ultimately inspired her to write the book. Having recently arrived in Tanganyika as the daughter of a Moravian missionary, she witnessed nearby in the city of Mombasa, British Kenya (1888–1963), a choir singing Gregorian chant. ‘I could not believe how different [it] sounded’, she remarks, and from that moment, ‘my curiosity was aroused’ (p. 1). …
Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
Black Music Labor and the Animated Properties of Slave Sound
While historians, musicologists, and cultural critics have long acknowledged the widespread and enduring appeal of US black music, few have grappled with the problem of its enormous cultural and aesthetic value. This essay proposes a material understanding of black musical value that locates its origins in the peculiar economy of race and capitalism under US slavery. It argues that black music's value accrues from the anomaly of musical productio…
The Sound of Racial Feeling
Critics continue to debate the value of U.S. black music according to a flawed distinction between racial authenticity and social construction. Both sides have it half-right. Black music's value arose historically as the result of a fundamental contradiction in the logic of race tracing back to the slave era. As “Negro” in form, the music was constituted as the collective property of another property, a property-in-slaves. The incongruity produce…
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana
Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
Reggaeton
Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Narrating Black Music's Past
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 84
How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel
Journal Article How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel. By Horace Clarence Boyer. (Washington: Elliott & Clark, 1995. 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-880216-19-1.) Get access Ronald Radano Ronald Radano University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1077–1078, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945768 Published: 01 Decem…
Denoting Difference: The Writing of the Slave Spirituals
Denoting Difference: The Writing of the Slave Spirituals
Black Music Labor and the Animated Properties of Slave Sound
While historians, musicologists, and cultural critics have long acknowledged the widespread and enduring appeal of US black music, few have grappled with the problem of its enormous cultural and aesthetic value. This essay proposes a material understanding of black musical value that locates its origins in the peculiar economy of race and capitalism under US slavery. It argues that black music's value accrues from the anomaly of musical productio…
Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
The Sound of Racial Feeling
Critics continue to debate the value of U.S. black music according to a flawed distinction between racial authenticity and social construction. Both sides have it half-right. Black music's value arose historically as the result of a fundamental contradiction in the logic of race tracing back to the slave era. As “Negro” in form, the music was constituted as the collective property of another property, a property-in-slaves. The incongruity produce…
Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel
Journal Article How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel. By Horace Clarence Boyer. (Washington: Elliott & Clark, 1995. 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-880216-19-1.) Get access Ronald Radano Ronald Radano University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1077–1078, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945768 Published: 01 Decem…
Denoting Difference: The Writing of the Slave Spirituals
Narrating Black Music's Past
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 84
Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Reggaeton
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
The Sound of Racial Feeling
Critics continue to debate the value of U.S. black music according to a flawed distinction between racial authenticity and social construction. Both sides have it half-right. Black music's value arose historically as the result of a fundamental contradiction in the logic of race tracing back to the slave era. As “Negro” in form, the music was constituted as the collective property of another property, a property-in-slaves. The incongruity produce…
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana
Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
Black Music Labor and the Animated Properties of Slave Sound
While historians, musicologists, and cultural critics have long acknowledged the widespread and enduring appeal of US black music, few have grappled with the problem of its enormous cultural and aesthetic value. This essay proposes a material understanding of black musical value that locates its origins in the peculiar economy of race and capitalism under US slavery. It argues that black music's value accrues from the anomaly of musical productio…
The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891–1961: Scholars, Singers, Missionaries Anna Maria Busse Berger
Anna Maria Busse Berger introduces her thoughtful new study by recounting a childhood experience that ultimately inspired her to write the book. Having recently arrived in Tanganyika as the daughter of a Moravian missionary, she witnessed nearby in the city of Mombasa, British Kenya (1888–1963), a choir singing Gregorian chant. ‘I could not believe how different [it] sounded’, she remarks, and from that moment, ‘my curiosity was aroused’ (p. 1). …
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