Sounding Our Way Home - 9781496847645

University Press of Mississippi

Sounding Our Way HomeJapanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity\nAuthor(s): Susan Miyo Asai\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496847645, 978-1496847645\nSynopsis\nA product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach \""home\"" through musicking. Using ethnomusicology as a lens, Susan Miyo Asai examines the musical choices of a population that, historically, is considered outside the racial and ethnic boundaries of American citizenship. Emphasizing the notion of national identity and belonging, the volume provokes a discussion about the challenges of nation-building in a democratic society.\n\nAsai addresses the politics of music, interrogating the ways musicking functions as a performance of social, cultural, an.