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Modernity´s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music
Roshanak Kheshti
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Paperback. Series: Postmillennial Pop. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 193 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
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. In Modernity's Ear, Roshanak ... Read more
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. In Modernity's Ear, Roshanak ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Postmillennial Pop
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479817863
SKU
V9781479817863
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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: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music
Engaging an impressive range of methodologies, Modernity's Ear offers 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 ... Read more