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Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century
Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the Twenty-21st Century is a multi-authored, collaboratively conceived book of essays that tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the United States in the early twenty-first century. This book encourages scholars in music circles and beyond to explore the intersections between social responsibility, community engagement, and academic practices through the simple act of working together. The book's essays—written by a diverse and cross-generational group of scholars, performers, and practitioners—demonstrate how collaboration can harness complementary skills and nourish comparative boundary-crossing through interdisciplinary research. The chapters of the volume address issues of race, nationalism, mobility, cultural domination, and identity; as well as the crisis of the Trump era and the political power of music. Each contribution to the volume is written collaboratively by two scholars, bringing together contributors who represent a mix of career stages and positions. Through the practice of and reflection on collaboration, Sounding Together breaks out of long-established paradigms of solitude in humanities scholarship and works toward social justice in the study of music.
This Open Access edition is made available through financial support from the Harvard University FAS Tenured Faculty Subvention Fund, the Harvard University Department of Music, and the University of Michigan Office of Research Faculty Grants and Awards Program.
Figure 2.3. Donald Beckman Brown (1905–1980), chief of the Information Division of GHQ, gazing at a turntable with Japanese high school students. This photo was taken on June 10, 1948, and the recording in his hand was Oklahoma! From:日本の高校生とCIE音楽担当官 [Japanese high school students and CIE music officers] 横浜開港資料館所蔵 [held in Yokohama Archives of History], which houses a Don Brown Collection of foreign books and magazines about Japan.
Figure 2.4. The photos in this cluster feature Yoshiro Ernest Satow. In the group image (upper left), he is in the center, surrounded by family members (from the left): Tai’ichirō (Yoshiro’s father), Emiko Dorothy (his sister), and (on the right) Grace (his mother); and an unidentified American (possibly Donald Brown). Published in Geijutsu Shinchō 50, no. 6 (Tokyo: Shinchō-sha, June 1999), 60. Courtesy of Morihiro Satow.