Table of Contents:
  • Decolonizing the ear : the transcolonial reverberations of vernacular phonograph music / Michael Denning
  • Smoking hot : cigarettes, jazz, and the production of global imaginaries in interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad
  • Circuit listening : Grace Chang and the dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones
  • The Aesthetics of AllaÌຠlistening like a sonidero / Josh Kun
  • Sound legacy : Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel
  • Imperial aurality : jazz, the archive, and U.S. empire / Jairo Moreno
  • Where they came from : reracializing music in the empire of silence / Philip V. Bohlman
  • Di eagle and di bear : who gets to tell the story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen
  • Currents of revolutionary confluence : a view from Cuba's hip hop festival / Marc Perry
  • Tango as intangible cultural heritage : development, diversity, and the values of music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker
  • Musical economies of the elusive metropolis / Gavin Steingo
  • The sound of anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards
  • Rap, race, revolution : post-9/11 Brown and a hip hop critique of empire / Nitasha Sharma
  • Echo and anthem : representing sound, music, and difference in two colonial modern novels / Amanda Weidman
  • Tonality as a colonizing force in Africa / Kofi Agawu.