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008			150415s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2015014812
020			_a9781479867011 (cl : alk. paper)
020			_a9781479817863 (pb : alk. paper)
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aML3916 _b.K54 2015
082	0	0	_a780.9 _223
100	1		_aKheshti, Roshanak. _925853
245	1	0	_aModernity's ear : _blistening to race and gender in world music / _cRoshanak Kheshti.
260			_aUSA : _bNew York University Press , _c2015 .
300			_a179 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aPostmillennial pop
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index.
505	0		_aThe female sound collector and her talking machine -- Listen, Inc. : aural modernity and incorporation -- Losing the listening self in the aural other -- Racial noise, hybridity, and miscegenation in world music -- The world music culture of incorporation -- Epilogue : modernity's radical ear and the sonic infidelity of Zora Neale Hurston's recordings.
520			_a"Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early "songcatchers" were white women of comfortable class standing, similar to the female consumers targeted by the music industry as the gramophone became increasingly present in bourgeois homes. Through these simultaneous movements, listening became constructed as a feminized practice, one that craved exotic sounds and mythologized the 'other' that made them. In Modernity's Ear, Roshanak Kheshti examines the ways in which racialized and gendered sounds became fetishized and, in turn, capitalized on by an emergent American world music industry through the promotion of an economy of desire. Taking a mixed-methods approach that draws on anthropology and sound studies, Kheshti locates sound as both representative and constitutive of culture and power. Through analyses of film, photography, recordings, and radio, as well as ethnographic fieldwork at a San Francisco-based world music company, Kheshti politicizes the feminine in the contemporary world music industry. Deploying critical theory to read the fantasy of the feminized listener and feminized organ of the ear, Modernity's Ear ultimately explores the importance of pleasure in constituting the listening self." -- Publisher's description
650		0	_aWorld music _xSocial aspects. _925855
650		0	_aSound recordings _xSocial aspects. _925857
650		0	_aMusic and race. _925858
830		0	_aPostmillennial pop. _920850
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