KYLYN Festival | Imperial Moods: Mid-Century Music and the Cold War, with Manan Desai

When

Thursday May 23, 2024: 6:00pm to 7:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

Description

Desai's presentation explores U.S. media representations of the Third World, the global bloc of decolonizing nations in Asia and Africa during the Cold War, through the development of the mid-century music genre known as Exotica. Emerging after the Second World War, Exotica was a popular form of ersatz “world music” which, he argues, responded to anxieties around racial integration and the decolonizing world.

Manan Desai is a 2023-24 Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Associate Professor of American Culture and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies.

This event is part of the KYLYN APIA Arts and Culture Festival.

The Library intends to provide a live stream of this event pending the presenter's permission. Please check back closer to the event for additional updates.