Sound Alignments

Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop.Paola Iovene is Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China.Kaley Mason is Assistant Professor of Music at Lewis and Clark College.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction / Michael Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason  1Part I. Routes1. Musical Travels of the Coconut Isles and the Socialist Popular / Jennifer Lindsay  432. Vehicles of Progress: The Kerala Rikshawala at the Intersection of Communism and Social Realism / Nisha Kommattam  693. East Asian Pop Music and an Incomplete Regional Contemporary / C.J. W.-L. Wee  93Part II. Covers4. Searching for Youth, the People (Minjung), and "Another" West While Living Through Anti-Communist Cold War Politics: South Korean "Folk Song" in the 1970s / Hyunjoon Shin  1315. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, and Sound Alignments: Covers and Cantonese Cover Songs in 1960s Hong Kong / Hon-Lun Yang  153Part III. Fronts6. Sonic Imaginaries of Okinawa: Daiku Tetsuhiro's Cosmopolitan "Paradise" / MariÉ Abe  1737. Cosmaharaja: Popular Songs of Socialist Cosmopolitanism in Cold War India / Anna Schultz  2018. Yellow Music Criticism during China's Anti-Rightest Campaign / Qian Zhang  231Afterword: Asia's Soundings of the Cold War / Christine R. Yano  249Bibliography  263Contributors  285Index  289

“With this vital addition to the growing literature in global music studies, the contributors to Sound Alignments reveal the vernacular cosmopolitanism of Asian popular music as a crucial dimension of Cold War cultural politics, nationalist policies, and internationalist rhetorics. An essential mapping of sonic history and musical mediation.” - David Novak, author of (Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation) “Giving readers a happily cacophonous remapping of the sounds of the Cold War, Sound Alignments is an intellectually stimulating and multidimensional contribution to the study of twentieth-century popular music and the global culture of the Cold War.” - Andrew F. Jones, author of (Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s) "Sound Alignments deserves recognition for tackling the 'mutually entangled structures' produced by the 'processes of imperialization, colonization, and the cold war' that have shaped an imaginary Asia (p. 212). . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."- T. S. Yamada (Choice) “[Sound Alignments] is a highly informative and intellectually stimulating book.”- CedarBough T. Saeji (Pacific Affairs)