Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music.  Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Hearing Empire-Imperial Listening / Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan  1Part I. Technologies of Circulation1. Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music / Michael Denning  252. Smoking Hot: Cigarettes, Jazz, and the Production of Global Imaginaries in Interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad  453. Circuit Listening: Grace Chang and the Dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones  66Part II. Audible Displacements4. The Aesthetics of AllÁ: Listening Like a Sonidero / Josh Kun  955. Sound Legacy: Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel  1166. Imperial Aurality: Jazz, the Archive, and U.S. Empire / Jairo Moreno  1357. Where They Came From: Reracializing Music in the Empire of Silence / Philip V. Bohlman  161Part III. Cultural Policies and Politics in the Sound Market8. Di Eagle and di Bear: Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen  1879. Currents of Revolutionary Confluence: A View from Cuba's Hip Hop Festival / Marc Perry  20910. Tango as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Development, Diversity, and the Values of Music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker  22511. Musical Economies of the Elusive Metropolis / Gavin Steingo  246Part IV. Anticolonialism12. The Sound of Anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards  26913. Rap, Race, Revolution: Post-9/11 Brown and a Hip Hop Critique of Empire / Nitasha Sharma  29214. Echo and Anthem: Representing Sound, Music, and Difference in Two Colonial Modern Novels / Amanda Weidman  31415. Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa / Kofi Agawu  334Discography  357Bibliography  361Contributors  391Index  397

"'Empire,' for most of these authors, is not restrained to political empires. Instead, it entails a broad understanding of declining national sovereignty, modern capitalism, and multinational enterprises, all reflected by and in sound. That gaze alone makes this a dynamic and interesting book for historians to consult." - Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Canadian Journal of History) "Audible Empire is a project admirably conceived and executed, consistent in its compelling, well-written, and timely scholarship." - Ruth E. Rosenberg (Notes) "Audible Empire . . . offers a complex, far-reaching, and sophisticated set of perspectives for considering various constructions of empire and a wide range of sonic acts that have been and continue to be interconnected." - Sindhumathi Revuluri (Music and Letters) "A welcome publication, adding the subjectivity and fluidity of music, sound, and listening to an already complex network of scholarly explorations about processes of empire formation. . . . This volume brings to the foreground more than an array of perspectives on the audible aspects of empire formation; it highlights the many tensions that are involved in writing history and thinking historically, about empires and about music making in general." - Cristina Magaldi (Journal of the Society for American Music)

Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music.  Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Hearing Empire-Imperial Listening / Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan  1Part I. Technologies of Circulation1. Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music / Michael Denning  252. Smoking Hot: Cigarettes, Jazz, and the Production of Global Imaginaries in Interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad  453. Circuit Listening: Grace Chang and the Dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones  66Part II. Audible Displacements4. The Aesthetics of AllÁ: Listening Like a Sonidero / Josh Kun  955. Sound Legacy: Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel  1166. Imperial Aurality: Jazz, the Archive, and U.S. Empire / Jairo Moreno  1357. Where They Came From: Reracializing Music in the Empire of Silence / Philip V. Bohlman  161Part III. Cultural Policies and Politics in the Sound Market8. Di Eagle and di Bear: Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen  1879. Currents of Revolutionary Confluence: A View from Cuba's Hip Hop Festival / Marc Perry  20910. Tango as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Development, Diversity, and the Values of Music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker  22511. Musical Economies of the Elusive Metropolis / Gavin Steingo  246Part IV. Anticolonialism12. The Sound of Anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards  26913. Rap, Race, Revolution: Post-9/11 Brown and a Hip Hop Critique of Empire / Nitasha Sharma  29214. Echo and Anthem: Representing Sound, Music, and Difference in Two Colonial Modern Novels / Amanda Weidman  31415. Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa / Kofi Agawu  334Discography  357Bibliography  361Contributors  391Index  397

"'Empire,' for most of these authors, is not restrained to political empires. Instead, it entails a broad understanding of declining national sovereignty, modern capitalism, and multinational enterprises, all reflected by and in sound. That gaze alone makes this a dynamic and interesting book for historians to consult." - Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Canadian Journal of History) "Audible Empire is a project admirably conceived and executed, consistent in its compelling, well-written, and timely scholarship." - Ruth E. Rosenberg (Notes) "Audible Empire . . . offers a complex, far-reaching, and sophisticated set of perspectives for considering various constructions of empire and a wide range of sonic acts that have been and continue to be interconnected." - Sindhumathi Revuluri (Music and Letters) "A welcome publication, adding the subjectivity and fluidity of music, sound, and listening to an already complex network of scholarly explorations about processes of empire formation. . . . This volume brings to the foreground more than an array of perspectives on the audible aspects of empire formation; it highlights the many tensions that are involved in writing history and thinking historically, about empires and about music making in general." - Cristina Magaldi (Journal of the Society for American Music)

Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music.  Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Hearing Empire-Imperial Listening / Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan  1Part I. Technologies of Circulation1. Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music / Michael Denning  252. Smoking Hot: Cigarettes, Jazz, and the Production of Global Imaginaries in Interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad  453. Circuit Listening: Grace Chang and the Dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones  66Part II. Audible Displacements4. The Aesthetics of AllÁ: Listening Like a Sonidero / Josh Kun  955. Sound Legacy: Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel  1166. Imperial Aurality: Jazz, the Archive, and U.S. Empire / Jairo Moreno  1357. Where They Came From: Reracializing Music in the Empire of Silence / Philip V. Bohlman  161Part III. Cultural Policies and Politics in the Sound Market8. Di Eagle and di Bear: Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen  1879. Currents of Revolutionary Confluence: A View from Cuba's Hip Hop Festival / Marc Perry  20910. Tango as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Development, Diversity, and the Values of Music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker  22511. Musical Economies of the Elusive Metropolis / Gavin Steingo  246Part IV. Anticolonialism12. The Sound of Anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards  26913. Rap, Race, Revolution: Post-9/11 Brown and a Hip Hop Critique of Empire / Nitasha Sharma  29214. Echo and Anthem: Representing Sound, Music, and Difference in Two Colonial Modern Novels / Amanda Weidman  31415. Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa / Kofi Agawu  334Discography  357Bibliography  361Contributors  391Index  397

"'Empire,' for most of these authors, is not restrained to political empires. Instead, it entails a broad understanding of declining national sovereignty, modern capitalism, and multinational enterprises, all reflected by and in sound. That gaze alone makes this a dynamic and interesting book for historians to consult." - Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Canadian Journal of History) "Audible Empire is a project admirably conceived and executed, consistent in its compelling, well-written, and timely scholarship." - Ruth E. Rosenberg (Notes) "Audible Empire . . . offers a complex, far-reaching, and sophisticated set of perspectives for considering various constructions of empire and a wide range of sonic acts that have been and continue to be interconnected." - Sindhumathi Revuluri (Music and Letters) "A welcome publication, adding the subjectivity and fluidity of music, sound, and listening to an already complex network of scholarly explorations about processes of empire formation. . . . This volume brings to the foreground more than an array of perspectives on the audible aspects of empire formation; it highlights the many tensions that are involved in writing history and thinking historically, about empires and about music making in general." - Cristina Magaldi (Journal of the Society for American Music)