bSingers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly Sillsbp Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redzepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of race and class identities the class-related contradictions exposed by the divide between highbrow and pop culture links between narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between privileged and marginalized identities singers' ability to adapt to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in order to connect with listeners how the meanings we read into a singer's life and art build on one another and technology's ability to challenge our ideas about w