TROPICAL RENDITIONS: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America

[...]with such a framework and its "phonographic approach," Tropical Renditions examines cultural practices ranging from DJing and karaoke to performance art and indie rock, not only to account for the making of musical scenes in Filipino America, but also the making of Filipino America th...

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Published in:Pacific affairs 2018, Vol.91 (1), p.198-200
Main Author: Bascara, Victor
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
Chang, Michael
Diaspora
Disc jockeys
DJ QBert
Hagedorn, Jessica (1949- )
Karaoke
Listening
Musical performances
Nonfiction
Organized crime
Performance art
Philippino
Popular music
Radio
Rock music
Technology
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Summary:[...]with such a framework and its "phonographic approach," Tropical Renditions examines cultural practices ranging from DJing and karaoke to performance art and indie rock, not only to account for the making of musical scenes in Filipino America, but also the making of Filipino America through musical scenes.Balance's notion of "renditions" functions as a way of connecting dots so that when DJ QBert and other champions of the form do what they do with recordings, technology, and performance, they can be seen as participating in and extending critical engagements that have marked the dynamic relationship between Filipinos and the US empire.Balance writes, "Filled with scenes of concert-going and radio listening in cities like Manila, San Francisco, and New York, [Hagedorn's] early poems, today, serve as a soundtrack for the 'counter-assimilationist immigrant narrative' in her work and acknowledges U.S. pop culture and music's influence as beginning in the Philippines" (99-100).In characterizing how these underappreciated performers demand wider recognition, scholarly and otherwise, Balance writes, "accounts of analog media forms, and the ways in which they helped original Pilipino musical (OPM) forms such as classic, punk, and indie rock flourish, fly in the face of the cultural imperialist view that non-Western cultures passively consume U.S. and European popular music.
ISSN:0030-851X
1715-3379