Bangkok after Dark ? Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies
Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies
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Product details:
- Publisher MD ? Duke University Press
- Date of Publication 2 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Cloth over boards
- ISBN 9781478028475
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 572 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 illustrations 700
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Short description:
Benjamin Tausig uses the biography of jazz pianist Maurice Rocco, an American ex-patriate living in Bangkok, to tell the history of transnational encounters between Thais and Americans during the long Vietnam War.
MoreLong description:
From the 1930s to the 1950s, jazz pianist Maurice Rocco was a mainstay in Hollywood and American nightlife scenes. As rock and roll surpassed jazz as America’s most popular music in the 1950s, the queer Black pianist’s fortunes faded and he was forced to go abroad for new opportunities. In 1964 Rocco settled in Bangkok, where he thrived and enjoyed a relatively privileged life until he was murdered by two young male sex workers in 1976. In Bangkok after Dark, Benjamin Tausig uses Rocco’s intriguing story to trace the history of transnational nightlife encounters between Thais and Americans during the long American war in Vietnam. Tausig shows how these encounters, which included musical collaborations, romantic and sexual relationships, and new labor, identity, and geopolitical configurations, remade Thailand in crucial and enduring ways. As Tausig demonstrates, Rocco’s Blackness, queerness, and musical life in Thailand illuminate how Thai-American relationships complicated neat distinctions between the two countries. In teasing out these complexities through the figure of Rocco, Tausig challenges conventional understandings of the global Cold War on individual and transnational scales.
“In this unique and important book, Benjamin Tausig tells the compelling journey of one Black, queer American man whose biography Tausig uses as a vehicle for another story about capitalist development in Thailand during the Cold War. We learn about the cultural effects of the US fiscal and military presence in Thailand, the development of and changes to colorism and to racial and farang identities in Thailand, the significance of the local and global circulation of musical genres, and much more. Bangkok after Dark is magnificent.”
