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

(Part of the Postmillenial Pop Series)

by Roshanak Kheshti

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Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear

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 female consumers targeted by the music industry as...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1479817864

ISBN13:9781479817863

Release Date:October 2015

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Arts, Music & Photography Music Social Science Social Sciences

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