Austronesian Soundscapes : : Performing Arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia / / ed. by Birgit Abels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Abels, Birgit,
• MitwirkendeR: Ammann, Raymond,; Bendrups, Dan,; Cattermole, Jennifer,; Emoff, Ron,; Gillespie, Kirsty,; Kaeppler, Adrienne L.,; Meijl, Toon van,; Neuenfeldt, Karl,; Nor, Mohd Anis Md,; Rappoport, Dana,; Solís, Ted,; Spiller, Henry,; Stallsmith, Glenn,; Wolffram, Paul,; Wong, David T.W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: IIAS Publications ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

In Austronesia—the region that stretches from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east—music plays a vital role in both the construction and expression of social and cultural identities. Yet research into the music of Austronesia has hitherto been sparse. Drawing together contemporary cultural studies and musical analysis, Austronesian Soundscapes will fill this research gap, offering a comprehensive analysis of traditional and contemporary Austronesian music and, at the same time, investigating how music reflects the challenges that Austronesian cultures face in this age of globalization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations (by Chapter) -- List of Audio-visual Resources (by Chapter) -- Introduction. Birgit Abels -- SOUTHEAST ASIA -- 1. Creating Places through the Soundscape: A Kalinga Peace Pact Celebration -- 2. Sundanese Dance as Practice or Spectacle: It’s All Happening at the Zoo -- 3. Malay-Islamic Zapin: Dance and Soundscapes from the Straits of Malacca -- 4. The Contemporary Musical Culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia -- 5. To Sing the Rice in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores), Indonesia 103 Dana Rappoport -- MADAGASCAR -- 6. Tromba Children, Maresaka, and Postcolonial Malady in Madagascar -- OCEANIA -- 7. Fractals in Melanesian Music -- 8. ‘Singing Spirits And The Dancing Dead’: Sonic Geography, Music and Ritual Performance in a Melanesian Community -- 9. Breaking the Tikol? Code-switching, Cassette Culture and a Lihirian Song Form -- 10. Fijian Sigidrigi and the Performance of Social Hierarchies -- 11. Tau’a’alo: Paddling Songs as Cultural Metaphor -- 12. Disconnected Connections. Puerto Rican Diasporic Musical Identity in Hawai’i -- 13. Performing Austronesia in the Twenty-first Century: A Rapa Nui Perspective on Shared Culture and Contact -- 14. ‘To Sing is to be Happy’: The Dynamics of Contemporary Maori Musical Practices -- 15. Australian Indigenous Choices of Repertoire in Community CDs/DVDs: Recording and Reclaiming Torres Strait Islander Sacred and Secular Music -- Contributors -- Index