Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America

Christine Bacareza Balance

Published by Duke University Press 2016

Tropical Renditions

Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America

Christine Bacareza Balance

In the series Refiguring American Music

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375142

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About this book

In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes.

Author / Editor information

Christine Bacareza Balance is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews

"Balance’s book is a major contribution to a flowering of contemporary scholarship on the Filipino diaspora and musical performance. . . . From DJing and karaoke to performance art and indie Pinoise rock, Balance’s book draws out the rich implications of such musical scenes, and in doing so, shows how Filipino America has been made, and made uniquely meaningful, through music."

-- Victor Bascara Pacific Affairs

"With her careful survey of ethnographic texts and implicit use of ethnographic research techniques, Balance sets a new standard for accounts of popular music culture in performance studies."

-- Neal Matherne Ethnomusicology

"Tropical Renditions offers a script from which to begin rehearsing a multiscalar phonography of place, race, and music that is . . . relentlessly and productively disobedient."

-- Anjeline de Dios Southeast Asian Studies

"A gift to the fields of Asian studies, sound studies, and cultural studies, speaking between and across each in order to posit a theory of sound that is attuned to the affective and sociopolitical contours of the Filipinx diasporic experience. . . . Seminal in its theorizing of the social conditions that dictate how the Filipinx performing body is consumed."

-- Casey Mecija Journal of the Society for American Music

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Flip the Beat: An Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Sonic Fictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. The Serious Work of Karaoke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
3. Jessica Hagedorn’s Gangster Routes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
4. Pinoise Rock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 20 illustrations

eBook

Published: April 21, 2016
ISBN: 9780822375142