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Roshanak Kheshti - Modernity's Ear - 9781479867011 - V9781479867011
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Modernity's Ear

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Description for Modernity's Ear Hardcover. Series: Postmillennial Pop. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 435.

Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear
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 became increasingly present in bourgeois homes. Through these simultaneous movements, listening became constructed as a feminized practice, one that craved exotic sounds and mythologized the ‘other’ that made them.
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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Postmillennial Pop
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479867011
SKU
V9781479867011
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Ref
99-1

About Roshanak Kheshti
Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and affiliate faculty in the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews for Modernity's Ear
Engaging an impressive range of methodologies,Modernitys Earoffers an astute look into the world music culture industry through the lens of ethnographic entrapment and phonographic subjectivity. With sharp insight, Kheshti explores the nexus between bodies and sounds at the intersection of racial and gender identities to make a crucial point about phonographic listening as an important venue for performative and philosophical ... Read more

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