Description: Radiation Sounds : Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences, Paperback by Schwartz, Jessica A., ISBN 147801461X, ISBN-13 9781478014614, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "On March 1, 1954, the US military detonated "Castle Bravo," its most powerful nuclear bomb, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Two days later, the US military evacuated the Marshallese to a nearby atoll where they became part of a classified study, without their consent, on the effects of radiation on humans. In Radiation Sounds Jessica A. Schwartz examines the seventy-five years of Marshallese music developed in response to US nuclear militarism on their homeland. Schwartz shows how Marshallese singing draws on religious, cultural, and political practices to make heard the deleterious effects of US nuclear violence. Schwartz also points to the literal silencing of Marshallese voices and throats compromised by radiation as well as the United States' silencing of information about the human radiation study. In foregrounding the centrality of the aural and sensorial in understanding nuclear testing's long-term effects, Schwartz offers new modes of understanding the relationships between the voice, sound, militarism, indigeneity, and geopolitics"--
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Book Title: Radiation Sounds : Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Radiation Sounds : Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: History & Criticism, Ethnomusicology, Oceania
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Music, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jessica A. Schwartz
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
