{"product_id":"sounding-our-way-home-japanese-american-musicking-and-the-politics-of-identity-paperback-softback-9781496847645","title":"Sounding Our Way Home; Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496847645","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSounding Our Way Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJapanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Miyo Asai (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496847645\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 30 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBringing together decades of interviews and original archival work, \u003ci\u003eSounding Our Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to provide a true overview of the full range of the Japanese American musical experience.\" - W. Anthony Sheppard, author of \u003cem\u003eExtreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eSounding Our Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Miyo Asai weaves together historical and musical analysis, spotlighting the achievements of individual musicians within a broader narrative of Japanese American musicking across generations. This book is an admirable and important contribution to Asian American studies and music history.\" - Grace Wang, associate professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607700435224,"sku":"9781496847645","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sounding-our-way-home-japanese-american-musicking-and-the-politics-of-identity-paperback-softback-9781496847645","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}