Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific

Lonán Ó Briain is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (2018) and co-editor of Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (2020). Min Yen Ong is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is also a research associate at Darwin College and a Bye-Fellow at Homerton College and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. She holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London, UK.

This timely and compelling book attunes us to the far-reaching impact of media technologies on music and sound across the Asia Pacific region. Taking a comparative approach, the diverse case studies reflect on the transformative effects of 'musical media' on people's lives, exposing fundamental tensions between liberation and control, empowerment and constraint, inclusion and exclusion.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Musical Media in the Asia PacificLonán Ó Briain, University of Nottingham, UK, and Min Yen Ong, University of Cambridge, UK PART ONE Vocalizing Community 1. Getting Our Voices Heard: Radio Broadcasting and Secrecy in VanuatuMonika Stern, CNRS, France 2. Sounding an Indigenous Domain: Radio, Voice, and Lisu Media EvangelismYing Diao, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany 3. Narrowcasting into the Infinite Margins: Internet Sonorities of Transient Indonesian Domestic Workers in SingaporeShzr Ee Tan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK PART TWO Transforming Tradition 4. Harmonies for the Homeland: Traditional Music and the Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage on Vietnamese RadioLonán Ó Briain, University of Nottingham, UK 5. Mediation of Tradition: Television and Studio Productions of Khmer Music in Cambodia Francesca Billeri, SOAS, University of London, UK 6. Going with the Flow: Livestreaming and Korean Wave Narratives in P'ansoriAnna Yates-Lu, Seoul National University, South KoreaPART THREE Sounding Authority 7. North Korea: Controlling the Airwaves and Harmonizing the People Keith Howard, SOAS, University of London, UK 8. The Party and the People: Shifting Sonic Politics in Post-1949 Tiananmen SquareJoseph Lovell, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 9. Broadcasting Infrastructures and Electromagnetic Fatality: Listening to Enemy Radio in Socialist ChinaHang Wu, McGill University, Canada PART FOUR Performing Activism 10. “Change the World Gently with Singing”: Queer Audibility and Soft Activism in ChinaHongwei Bao, University of Nottingham, UK 11. Sounds of Political Reform: Indie Rock in Late New Order Indonesia M. Rizky Sasono, University of Pittsburgh, USA 12. Finding Agency in Hawaiian Online Collaborative Music Videos: Reclaiming Kaulana Na Pua in a Contemporary ContextMin Bee, University of Cambridge, UK, and Jordan Anthony Kapono Bee, Independent ScholarIndex