Communication professor Josh Kun has been awarded the 2006 American Book Award for Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (University of California Press). The book explores the constantly evolving, endlessly hybrid musical culture that exists in American cities and how it has affected the history of racial oppression and survival. "There is no history of race in the Americas that is not also a history of popular music," Kun writes. The book award is presented by the Before Columbus Foundation and is awarded by writers to writers with no specification to genre, subject matter or experience. Kun is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and L.A. Magazine. Audiotopia, released in 2005, is Kun’s first book.
Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
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