{"product_id":"sounding-our-way-home-japanese-american-musicking-and-the-politics-of-identity-hardcover","title":"Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Miyo Asai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, \u003ci\u003eSounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity \u003c\/i\u003enarrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach \"home\" through musicking. Using ethnomusicology as a lens, Susan Miyo Asai examines the musical choices of a population that, historically, is considered outside the racial and ethnic boundaries of American citizenship. Emphasizing the notion of national identity and belonging, the volume provokes a discussion about the challenges of nation-building in a democratic society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAsai addresses the politics of music, interrogating the ways musicking functions as a performance of social, cultural, and political identification for Japanese Americans in the United States. Musicking is an inherently political act at the intersection of music, identity, and politics, particularly if it involves expressing one's ethnicity and\/or race. Asai further investigates how Japanese American ethnic identification and cultural practices relate to national belonging. Musicking cultivates a narrative of a shared history and aesthetic between performers and listeners. The discourse situates not only Japanese Americans, but all Asians into the Black\/white binary of race relations in the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSounding Our Way Home \u003c\/i\u003econtributes to the ongoing struggle for acceptance and equal representation for people of color in the US. A history of Japanese American musicking across three generations, the book unveils the social and political discrimination that nonwhite immigrants and their offspring continue to face when it comes to finding acceptance in US society and culture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Miyo Asai\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emerita of ethnomusicology at Northeastern University, with expertise spanning Japanese traditional performing arts, Japanese American music and identity formation, and the intersection of Asian American and African American music and politics. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAt the Crossroads: Music and Social Justice\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eNōmai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan\u003c\/i\u003e and has contributed to numerous edited volumes, including \u003ci\u003eThe Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 348\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.25 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41822643716231,"sku":"9781496847638","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ef9c40776230b2f218a8ead15599eada_2fae5dd3-4294-4090-a968-7e9ca927d5f2.webp?v=1734084626","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/sounding-our-way-home-japanese-american-musicking-and-the-politics-of-identity-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}