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Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America (review)

Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America (review) American Music, fall 2011 Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/ Chinese America. by Su Zheng. New York: oxford university Press, 2010. ISbN-13: 978-0195134377. Hardcover. Pp. xxiii, 448. $65. Su Zheng's book on the musical life of Chinese america is as much an exploration of its cultural meanings, social functions, and roles in identity formation as it is a documentation of the multifarious forms of musicking in the Chinese community itself. In the book's eight chapters, Zheng takes the readers through its thickly entangled and interconnected conceptual territories, its racialized yet rich historical past, its present-day plurality of voices, its public (re)presentations and paradoxes, its most widely enjoyed genre--popular music--disseminated through transnational mass media, its connection to the global community, and, finally, its multiple interactions with the host country. No author who decides to trace the meaning and practice of such a vast number of musical groups and genres over more than 150 years through a relatively detailed ethnography and historical delineation has an easy task. This book, however, succeeds in balancing historical and critical analysis with keen observation and rich documentation. The first chapter addresses broad conceptual themes, such as "diaspora," cultural identity, transnationalism, urban http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America (review)

Rao, Nancy Yunhwa.
American Music , Volume 29 (3) – Nov 12, 2011
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American Music, fall 2011 Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/ Chinese America. by Su Zheng. New York: oxford university Press, 2010. ISbN-13: 978-0195134377. Hardcover. Pp. xxiii, 448. $65. Su Zheng's book on the musical life of Chinese america is as much an exploration of its cultural meanings, social functions, and roles in identity formation as it is a documentation of the multifarious forms of musicking in the Chinese community itself. In the book's eight chapters, Zheng takes the readers through its thickly entangled and interconnected conceptual territories, its racialized yet rich historical past, its present-day plurality of voices, its public (re)presentations and paradoxes, its most widely enjoyed genre--popular music--disseminated through transnational mass media, its connection to the global community, and, finally, its multiple interactions with the host country. No author who decides to trace the meaning and practice of such a vast number of musical groups and genres over more than 150 years through a relatively detailed ethnography and historical delineation has an easy task. This book, however, succeeds in balancing historical and critical analysis with keen observation and rich documentation. The first chapter addresses broad conceptual themes, such as "diaspora," cultural identity, transnationalism, urban

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