Tropical Renditions
Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2016
256 pages
978-0-8223-7514-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes.
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Christine Bacareza Balance is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Flip the Beat: An Introduction 1
1. Sonic Fictions 31
2. The Serious Work of Karaoke 56
3. Jessica Hagedorn's Gangster Routes 87
4. Pinoise Rock 123
Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries 155
Notes 187
Bibliography 207
Index 219
Flip the Beat: An Introduction 1
1. Sonic Fictions 31
2. The Serious Work of Karaoke 56
3. Jessica Hagedorn's Gangster Routes 87
4. Pinoise Rock 123
Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries 155
Notes 187
Bibliography 207
Index 219
