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Music and Sound in Transpacific East Asia: Transformations and Trajectories

Music and Sound in Transpacific East Asia: Transformations and Trajectories

Chang, Hyun Kyong Hannah
Law, Hedy
Rao, Nancy Yunhwa

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesMusic Reference

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 28, 2026

ISBN10: 3032246369
ISBN13: 9783032246363
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 28 2026
Pages: 343
Language: English

Music and Sound in Transpacific East Asia establishes transpacific circulation as a framework to understand the movement of music, sound, media, objects, texts, and people across East Asia and its diasporas. This collection of fourteen essays details a wealth of musical and sonic formations that emerged from neglected histories of transpacific circulations - from Cantonese opera in late-nineteenth-century San Francisco and Japanese tango musicians in 1930s Shanghai to church bells constructed from U.S. military oxygen tanks in post-Korean War South Korea. The essays explore such locations as transforming spaces of performance and sites of cultural negotiation, networked through migration, empire, war, and religion. Drawing from post/colonial history, anthropology, sound studies, memory studies, deaf studies, historical linguistics, and critical area studies, this collection offers new perspectives that challenge nation-, land-, and genre-based premises of musical authenticity.

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