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Refiguring American Music
Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7514-2
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Jessica Hagedorn’s Gangster Routes
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Published:April 2016
With the publication of her first novel in 1990, writer/performer Jessica Hagedorn emerged onto the national literary scene in the midst of U.S. culture wars. The era’s two critical currents of liberal multiculturalism and postcolonial studies impacted how scholars and readers figured Hagedorn’s authorial voice—as multicultural and hybrid, postmodern but never also postcolonial—in relationship to cultural authenticity. Chapter 3 listens against common tropes of authorial voice in order to hear Hagedorn’s early writing and performances with her poet’s band, The Gangster Choir, and performance trio, Thought Music. Following Hagedorn’s artistic route from post-World War II Manila to 1970s San Francisco...
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