Audible Empire – Music, Global Politics, Critique Radano Olaniyan Hardback

Audible EmpireMusic, Global Politics, Critique\nAuthor(s): Ronald Radano, Tejumola Olaniyan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822359869, 978-0822359869\nSynopsis\nAudible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography, and include topics such as the affective relationship between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the sonic landscape of the [url] Mexico border; the critiques of post-9/11 [url] empire by desi rappers; and the role of tonality in the colonization of Africa. Whether focusing on Argentine tango, theorizing anticolonialist sound, or exa.