Austronesian Soundscapes : : Performing Arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia / / ed. by Birgit Abels.
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 cul...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | IIAS Publications ;
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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