Modernity's Ear : Listening to Race and Gender in World Music /

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"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 femal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kheshti, Roshanak (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Weltmusik
Geschlechtsunterschied
Ethnische Identität
Sound recordings > Social aspects.
Music and race.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Musique et race.
Musiques du monde > Aspect social.
World music > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The female sound collector and her talking machine
  • Listen, Inc. : aural modernity and incorporation
  • Losing the listening self in the aural other
  • Racial noise, hybridity, and miscegenation in world music
  • The world music culture of incorporation
  • Epilogue : modernity's radical ear and the sonic infidelity of Zora Neale Hurston's recordings.

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