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What does it mean to “fit in?” In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of people’s positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.

Assimilation (Sociology) --- Social integration. --- Ethnic relations. --- Ethnic conflict. --- Religious tolerance. --- Cultural pluralism. --- anthropology. --- basis for exclusion. --- basis for inclusion. --- challenging common assumptions. --- cultural anthropology. --- discourse on identity. --- ethnic demographic studies. --- ethnicity. --- everyday politics. --- fitting in. --- intimate knowledge. --- local systems. --- nationalism. --- negotiation of political positions. --- religion. --- role of difference. --- role of sameness. --- social integration. --- social relationships.

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Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun insists that America is not a single chorus of many voices folded into one, but rather various republics of sound that represent multiple stories of racial and ethnic difference. To this end he covers a range of music and listeners to evoke the ways that popular sounds have expanded our idea of American culture and American identity. Artists as diverse as The Weavers, Café Tacuba, Mickey Katz, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bessie Smith, and Ozomatli reveal that the song of America is endlessly hybrid, heterogeneous, and enriching-a source of comfort and strength for populations who have been taught that their lives do not matter. Kun melds studies of individual musicians with studies of painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and of writers such as Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes. There is no history of race in the Americas that is not a history of popular music, Kun claims. Inviting readers to listen closely and critically, Audiotopia forges a new understanding of sound that will stoke debates about music, race, identity, and culture for many years to come.

Popular music --- Music --- Multiculturalism --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- america. --- american culture. --- american identity. --- american studies. --- art and music. --- artists. --- bronx. --- critical analysis. --- cultural studies. --- discussion books. --- ethnic demographic studies. --- ethnic differences. --- ethnic minorities. --- havana. --- hip hop. --- klezmer. --- latin rock. --- literary movements. --- los angeles. --- modern history. --- music and culture. --- music historians. --- music history. --- music lovers. --- music studies. --- music. --- nonfiction. --- popular music. --- race issues. --- racial history. --- racial issues. --- retrospective. --- us borders.