At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States extended its empire into the Philippines while subjugating Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. And yet, one of the most popular musical acts was a band of “little brown men,” Filipino musicians led by an African American conductor playing European and American music. The Philippine Constabulary Band and Lt. Walter H. Loving entertained thousands in concert halls and world’s fairs, held a place of honor in William Howard Taft’s presidential parade, and garnered praise by bandmaster John Philip Sousa—all the while facing beliefs and policies that Filipinos and African Americans were “uncivilized.” Author Mary Talusan draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts and exclusive interviews with band members and their descendants to compose the story from the band’s own voices. She sounds out the meanings of Americans’ responses to the band and identifies a desire to mitigate racial and cultural anxieties during an era of overseas expansion and increasing immigration of nonwhites, and the growing “threat” of ragtime with its roots in Black culture. The spectacle of the band, its performance and promotion, emphasized a racial stereotype of Filipinos as “natural musicians” and the beneficiaries of benevolent assimilation and colonial tutelage. Unable to fit Loving’s leadership of the band into this narrative, newspapers dodged and erased his identity as a Black American officer. The untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America’s racial ideologies, exploring musical pleasure at the intersection of Euro-American cultural hegemony, racialization, and US colonization of the Philippines.
在二十世纪之交，美国将其帝国扩展到菲律宾，同时征服了南方实行种族隔离的黑人。然而，最受欢迎的音乐表演之一是由一群“小棕人”组成的乐队，由一名非裔美国人指挥的菲律宾音乐家演奏欧洲和美国音乐。菲律宾警察乐队和Lt. Walter H. Loving在音乐厅和世界博览会上招待了成千上万的人，在威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱的总统游行中占有一席之地，并赢得了乐队指挥约翰·菲利普·索萨(John Philip sousa)的赞扬——与此同时，他们一直面临着菲律宾人和非裔美国人“不文明”的信念和政策。作者玛丽·塔鲁桑(Mary Talusan)借鉴了数百份报纸报道和对乐队成员及其后代的独家采访，用乐队自己的声音创作了这个故事。她阐述了美国人对这支乐队的反应的意义，并指出在一个海外扩张和非白人移民不断增加的时代，人们希望减轻种族和文化焦虑，以及源于黑人文化的拉格泰姆音乐日益增长的“威胁”。乐队的表演和宣传都强调了一种种族刻板印象，即菲律宾人是“天生的音乐家”，是仁慈的同化和殖民统治的受益者。由于无法将拉文在乐队中的领导地位与这种叙述联系起来，报纸回避并抹去了他作为一名美国黑人军官的身份。菲律宾警察乐队不为人知的故事提供了一个独特的机会来审视美国种族意识形态的局限性和漏洞，探索欧美文化霸权，种族化和美国殖民菲律宾的交集的音乐乐趣。
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{"title":"Hearing with an Imperial Ear:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109320,"journal":{"name":"Instruments of Empire","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130725481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTRODUCTION:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109320,"journal":{"name":"Instruments of Empire","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123311363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sounding Philippine Nationalism at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109320,"journal":{"name":"Instruments of Empire","volume":"152 6 Suppl 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128920907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Musical Resonances of Empire:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109320,"journal":{"name":"Instruments of Empire","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124509108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marching to Racial Progress:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109320,"journal":{"name":"Instruments of Empire","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124447972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wvnd9r.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":109320,"journal":{"name":"Instruments of Empire","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132521610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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