Austronesian Soundscapes: Performing Arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2011

Austronesian Soundscapes

Performing Arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia

Edited by: Birgit Abels

Volume 4 in the series IIAS Publications

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048508112

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Birgit Abels is a cultural musicologist at the University of Amsterdam and at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Amsterdam.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Tables and Illustrations (by Chapter) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
List of Audio-visual Resources (by Chapter) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Introduction. Birgit Abels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
SOUTHEAST ASIA
1. Creating Places through the Soundscape: A Kalinga Peace Pact Celebration Glenn Stallsmith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Sundanese Dance as Practice or Spectacle: It’s All Happening at the Zoo Henry Spiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Malay-Islamic Zapin: Dance and Soundscapes from the Straits of Malacca Mohd Anis Md Nor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. The Contemporary Musical Culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia David T.W. Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5. To Sing the Rice in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores), Indonesia 103 Dana Rappoport Dana Rappoport Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
MADAGASCAR
6. Tromba Children, Maresaka, and Postcolonial Malady in Madagascar Ron Emoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
OCEANIA
7. Fractals in Melanesian Music Raymond Ammann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
8. ‘Singing Spirits And The Dancing Dead’: Sonic Geography, Music and Ritual Performance in a Melanesian Community Paul Wolffram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
9. Breaking the Tikol? Code-switching, Cassette Culture and a Lihirian Song Form Kirsty Gillespie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
10. Fijian Sigidrigi and the Performance of Social Hierarchies Jennifer Cattermole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
11. Tau’a’alo: Paddling Songs as Cultural Metaphor Adrienne L. Kaeppler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
12. Disconnected Connections. Puerto Rican Diasporic Musical Identity in Hawai’i Ted Solís Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
13. Performing Austronesia in the Twenty-first Century: A Rapa Nui Perspective on Shared Culture and Contact Dan Bendrups Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
14. ‘To Sing is to be Happy’: The Dynamics of Contemporary Maori Musical Practices Toon van Meijl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
15. Australian Indigenous Choices of Repertoire in Community CDs/DVDs: Recording and Reclaiming Torres Strait Islander Sacred and Secular Music Karl Neuenfeldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: July 15, 2012
ISBN: 9789048508112