Claiming Diaspora

Su Zheng is Associate Professor and Chair of Music, as well as Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, at Wesleyan University. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China.

• Figures ; Tables ; Musical Examples ; Technical Notes ; Acknowledgments ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Formation of a Diasporic Musical Culture as a Site of Contradiction ; 3. New York and the Transpacific Routes: Music in the Racialized History of Chinese American ; Experience ; 4. Music Here and Now: A Diasporic Soundscape in a Global City ; 5. From Private Realm to Public Display of Multiculturalism: Mapping the Local Geocultural ; Processes of Music Production, Consumption, and (Re)Presentations ; 6. "Our Goal Is to Be in Sync with Other Areas of the World": Transnational Media Culture and ; Popular Music ; 7. The Poetics and Politics of Displacement: Portraits of Seven Immigrant Musicians ; 8. The Ambiguities of Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese American Music Discourse ; Notes ; Appendix I. Chinese American Musical Groups in the New York/New Jersey/Greater New ; York Metropolitan Area ; Appendix II. Sheung Chi Ng's Taishan Muyu Song Repertories ; Appendix III. Complete Chinese Texts of Poems and Lyrics Cited ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Discography ; Filmography ; Index

Su Zheng is an engaged musician / scholar in dialogue with the negotiated musics in Asian / Chinese America. She has lived and researched a range of genres and writes with deep knowledge of diasporic cultural practices. This is a sophisticated, important study full of local resonances and of transnational scales.