Music and the Racial Imagination by Ronald M. Radano, Philip ... - 9780226702001

Music and the Racial ImaginationAuthor(s): Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226702001, 978-0226702001\nSynopsis\n\""A spectre lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race\"", write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relationship between race and music has rarely been examined by contemporary scholars, most of whom have abandoned it for more enlightened notions of ethnicity and culture. Here, a distinguished group of contributors confront the issue head on. Representing an unusually broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions, they critically examine how the imagination of race has influenced musical production, reception and scholarly analysis, even as they reject the objectivity of the concept itself. Each essay follows the lead of the substantial introduction, which reviews the history.