Soundtracks of Asian America

Navigating Race through Musical Performance

Bibliographic Data

ID19912549
AuthorsGrace Wang (0000-0002-1392-1218, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages272
Publication date2015-02-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSoundtracks of Asian America (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780822376088
OpenAlexW4254414619
Open LibraryOL29711287M
ISBN9780822376088
GOOGLE_BOOK_ID9pyiBgAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received2

In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian Americans in Western classical music, U.S. popular music, and Mandopop (Mandarin-language popular music). Her study encompasses the perceptions and motivations of middle-class Chinese and Korean immigrant parents intensely involved in their children's classical music training, and of Asian and Asian American classical musicians whose prominence in their chosen profession is celebrated by some and undermined by others. Wang interviews young Asian American singer-songwriters who use YouTube to contest the limitations of a racialized U.S. media landscape, and she investigates the transnational modes of belonging forged by Asian American pop stars pursuing recording contracts and fame in East Asia. Foregrounding musical spaces where Asian Americans are particularly visible, Wang examines how race matters and operates in the practices and institutions of music making

Geography · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Asian Americans · Musicians · Social psychology

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