Title: Sounding the center
Description: Sounding the Center is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual honoring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge, and performance that underlies the classical court arts. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, Wong lays out the ritual in detail: the way it is enacted, the foods and objects involved, and the people who perform it, emphasizing the way the performers themselves discuss and construct aspects of the ceremony.
Subjects: Bangkok (Thailand), Dance, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, Music, Oral tradition, Performance, Religious aspects of Dance, Religious aspects of Music, Religious life and customs, Rites and ceremonies, Ritual, Social life and customs, Buddhist dance, Folklore, asia, Dance, religious aspects, Music, religious aspects, Thailand, social life and customs, Religious aspects, Buddhist music
Places: Bangkok, Bangkok (Thailand), Thailand