Traveling Sounds: Music, Migration, and Identity in the U.S. and Beyond (Transnational and Transatlantic American Studies)

Synopsis

Preface : The New Beale Street Blues / John Miller Jones -- Introduction : Traveling Sounds : Music, Migration And Identity Formation / Wilfried Raussert -- Jazz : The Classical Music Of Globalization / Reinhold Wagnleitner -- African-american/caribbean Sounding Strategies And Cultural Globalization / Ulfried Reichardt -- Spirit-sung : African-american Religious Music And Identity / Thérèse Smith -- How Can You Tell An American? : Opposing Concepts Of 'america' In The Oeuvre Of Bertolt Brecht And Kurt Weill / Frank Mehring -- Toward A Minor Music : American Experimentalism At Darmstadt, 1958-1974 -- Miles Davis, A European Jazz Artist From Illinois : A Historical And Musical Analysis Of Davis' European Collaborations And Interplays That Shaped Jazz Styles From 1940 To 1991 / Andrea Pejrolo -- No Cold Eyes In Paris : Walter Benjamin, The Aura Of Jazz, And The Politics Of Autour De Minuit / Jürgen E. Grandt -- I've Never Seen Five Niggers On Elvis Presley's Album Cover! : Hybridity, Ethnicity, And Masculinity In Contemporary Crossover Productions / Marcel Hartwig ; Gunter Süß -- If Black Dante Were To Meet The Tupac Amaru Of Stuttgart's Barrio : Political Poetics And Global Society : Contemporary Rap Lyrics In The U.s.a. And Germany / Christoph Schaub -- Competent Krauts : Following The Cultural Translations Of Hip-hop To Germany / Simon Strick -- Bhangra Remixes With Black Beats : Musical Hybridization In The Indian-american Diaspora / Kerstin Schmidt -- Lone Ranger, Josey Wales, And Ninja Man : East(ern) And West(ern) In An African-caribbean Sound Clash / Werner Zips -- Getting It On The Wrong Term? : Popular Culture And Homophobia / Elisabeth Schäfer-wünsche. Edited By Wilfried Raussert And John Miller Jones. Includes Bibliographical References.