Austronesian soundscapes
Subtitle: performing arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia
By: edited by Birgit Abels
Contributors: International Institute for Asian Studies
Series: IIAS publications series. Edited volumes -- 4; IIAS publications series -- 4.
Publisher: IIAS / Amsterdam University Press; Manchester University Press [distributor]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9789089640857; 9789048508112
Subjects: Musikethnologie; History and criticism; Music; Performing arts; Kulttanz
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Southeast Asia. Creating places through the soundscape : a Kalinga peace pact celebration / Glenn Stallsmith ; Sundanese dance as practice or spectacle : it's all happening at the zoo / Henry Spiller ; Malay-Islamic zapin : dance and soundscapes from the Straits of Malacca / Mohd Anis Md Nor ; The contemporary musical culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia / David T.W. Wong ; To sing the rice in Tanjung Bunga (eastern Flores), Indonesia / Dana Rappoport; title: Madagascar. Tromba children, maresaka, and postcolonial malady in Madagascar / Ron Emoff; title: Oceania.  Fractals in Melanesian music / Raymond Ammann ; 'Singing spirits and the dancing dead' : sonic geography, music and ritual performance in a Melanesian community / Paul Wolffram ; Breaking the tikol? : code-switching, cassette culture a Lihirian song form / Kirsty Gillespie ; Fijian sigidrigi and the performance of social hierarchies / Jennifer Cattermole ; Tauʼaʼalo : paddling songs as cultural metaphor / Adrienne L. Kaeppler ; Disconnected connections : Puerto Rican diasporic musical identity in Hawaiʼi / Ted Solís ; Performing Austronesia in the twenty-first century : a Rapa Nui perspective on shared culture and contact / Dan Bendrups ; 'To sing is to be happy' : the dynamics of contemporary Maori musical practices / Toon van Meijl ; Australian indigenous choices of repertoire in community CDs/DVDs : recording and reclaiming Torres Strait Islander sacred and secular music / Karl Neuenfeldt.