California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction....................1
1. The Early History of California Cultural and Musical Life....................11
2. The Transpacific Gaze: Orientalism, Queerness, and Californian Experimentalism....................33
3. A Thin Blue Line down Central Avenue: The LAPD and the Demise of a Musical Hub....................60
4. Noir Entanglements: Black Music, White Women, and the Dark City....................80
5. From the Mission Myth to Chicano Nationalism: The Evolution of Mestizo Identities and Music....................98
6. After Sa-i-ku: Korean American Hip-Hop since the Rodney King Uprising....................118
Conclusion....................137
Notes....................141
Works Cited....................165
Index....................179