Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Flip the Beat: An Introduction -- Chapter 1: Sonic Fictions -- Chapter 2: The Serious Work of Karaoke -- Chapter 3: Jessica Hagedorn's Gangster Routes -- Chapter 4: Pinoise Rock -- Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries -- No…
Examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. --Publisher's description.
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 identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereo…