Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America

by Christine Bacareza Balance

Book Overview

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 identities, publics, and politics. To understand this dynamic, Balance advocates for a "disobedient listening" that reveals how Filipino musicians challenge dominant racialized U.S. imperialist tropes of Filipinos as primitive, childlike, derivative,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360012
• ISBN13: 9780822360018
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"