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Resounding Afro Asia
Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration
Cultural hybridity in U.S. American music
Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter the convention of marking hybrid music under a single racial label. These projects foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound in the face of the ghettoizing culture industry.
Contemporary projects and racial engagements
Author Tamara Roberts traces black/Asian engagements across the United States and beyond through four projects: Funkadesi, Yoko Noge, Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble, and Red Baraat. These artists live multiracial lives, inhabiting and exceeding multicultural frameworks based on essentialism and segregation.
Musical collaborations and racial identities
When these musicians collaborate, they generate racially marked sounds that do not conform to their individual racial identities. The Afro Asian artists discussed in this book challenge racial determinism and articulate new identities through improvisation and composition.
Social and cultural practices
The practices discussed construct a forum for negotiating racial and cultural differences and forming inter-minority solidarities. Resounding Afro Asia contributes to literature that highlights Asian American artists in U.S. popular music history and interracial engagements fueling U.S. music making.
Audience and relevance
The book appeals to scholars of music, ethnomusicology, race theory, politics, and those interested in race and popular music.
