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Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory (Refiguring American Music) - Softcover

Radano, Ronald

 
9781478032175: Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory (Refiguring American Music)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1478032170 ISBN 13: 9781478032175
Verlag: Duke University Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

In Alive in the Sound, Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black music by focusing on the key matter of value, manifested musically in its seemingly embodied qualities-spirit, soul, and groove. While acknowledging these qualities are always embedded in Black music, Radano shows they developed not simply from performance but from musicians' status as laborers inhabiting an enduring racial-economic contradiction: Black music originated publicly as an exchangeable property owned by people whose subhuman status granted them-as "natural" musicians-indelible properties of sound. As a contradiction of the rules of ownership, wherein enslaved property was forbidden the right to own, modern Black music emerges after emancipation as a primary possession, moving dialectically into commercial markets and counterhistorically back into Black worlds. Slavery's seminal contests of ownership underlie modern musical sensations of aliveness, which become the chief measure of value in popular music. By reconceiving US Black music history as a history of value, Radano rethinks the music's place in US and global culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ronald Radano is Professor Emeritus of African Cultural Studies and Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Among his books is Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique, also published by Duke University Press.

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Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1478032170
ISBN 13 
9781478032175
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
578
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