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Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. Hearing Empire—Imperial Listening / Ronald Radano and Tejumola Olaniyan  1

Part I. Technologies of Circulation

1. Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music / Michael Denning  25

2. Smoking Hot: Cigarettes, Jazz, and the Production of Global Imaginaries in Interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad  45

3. Circuit Listening: Grace Chang and the Dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones  66

Part II. Audible Displacements

4. The Aesthetics of Allá: Listening Like a Sonidero / Josh Kun  95

5. Sound Legacy: Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel  116

6. Imperial Aurality: Jazz, the Archive, and U.S. Empire / Jairo Moreno  135

7. Where They Came From: Reracializing Music in the Empire of Silence / Philip V. Bohlman  161

Part III. Cultural Policies and Politics in the Sound Market

8. Di Eagle and di Bear: Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen  187

9. Currents of Revolutionary Confluence: A View from Cuba's Hip Hop Festival / Marc Perry  209

10. Tango as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Development, Diversity, and the Values of Music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker  225

11. Musical Economies of the Elusive Metropolis / Gavin Steingo  246

Part IV. Anticolonialism

12. The Sound of Anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards  269

13. Rap, Race, Revolution: Post-9/11 Brown and a Hip Hop Critique of Empire / Nitasha Sharma  292

14. Echo and Anthem: Representing Sound, Music, and Difference in Two Colonial Modern Novels / Amanda Weidman  314

15. Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa / Kofi Agawu  334

Discography  357

Bibliography  361

Contributors  391

Index  397

Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music. 

Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.