Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and
shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around
the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible
formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been
circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These
fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time,
politics, and geography, and include topics such as the affective
relationship between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the
sonic landscape of the U.S.- Mexico border; the critiques of
post-9/11 U.S. empire by desi rappers; and the role of tonality in
the colonization of Africa. Whether focusing on Argentine tango,
theorizing anticolonialist sound, or examining the music industry
of postapartheid South Africa, the contributors show how the
audible has been a central component in the creation of imperialist
notions of reason, modernity, and culture. In doing so, they allow
us to hear how empire is both made and challenged. Contributors:
Kofi Agawu, Philip V. Bohlman. Michael Denning, Brent Hayes
Edwards, Nan Enstad, Andrew Jones, Josh Kun, Morgan Luker, Jairo
Moreno, Tejumola Olaniyan, Marc Perry, Ronald Radano, Nitasha
Sharma, Micol Seigel, Gavin Steingo, Penny Von Eschen, Amanda
Weidman.
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