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Radiation Sounds
Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
Jessica A. Schwartz examines the seventy-five years of Marshallese music developed in response to the United States’ nuclear weapons testing on their homeland, showing how Marshallese singing practices make heard the harmful effects of US nuclear violence.
Author / Editor information
Jessica A. Schwartz is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews
“In this fascinating ethnography of singing as a sonic politics of Indigenous postcolonial identity, Jessica A. Schwartz reveals the intimate historical relations between aurality and nuclear war. Ambitious and unique, Radiation Sounds brings the sensory materialities of ‘the bomb’ home to the lives lived and songs sung in its shadow.”
-- David Novak, author of Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation
"This is a very sophisticated and well-researched book, enriched by the sharing of personal experience and observations that illuminate the research relationships that form its foundation. . . . This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars: historians, political scientists, anthropologists, Pacific studies, gender studies, and disaster studies scholars, in addition to ethnomusicologists and dance ethnologists. In teaching, it would be a good resource for graduate students."
-- Kirsty Gillespie Yearbook for Traditional Music
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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AcKnowledgments
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Introduction: “It Was the Sound That Terrified Us”
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CHAPTER ONE. Radioactive Citizenship: Voices of the Nation
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CHAPTER TWO. Precarious Harmonies
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CHAPTER THREE. MORIBA: “Everything Is in God’s Hands”
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CHAPTER FOUR. Uwaañañ (Spirited Noise)
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CHAPTER FIVE. Anemkwōj
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
287
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 19, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9781478091813
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
311
eBook ISBN:
9781478091813
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
Creative Commons
BY-NC 4.0
