Mayco A. Santaella is Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean for the School of Arts at Sunway University. He is the co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021) and editor of Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies (Sunway University Press, 2022).

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesList of Abbreviations and AcronymsContributors1 Appurtenances to Power: Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast AsiaLawrence N. Ross2 Space, Performance and Cultural Connections in Early Modern Southeast AsiaBarbara Watson Andaya3 The Role of the Elite in the Circulation of Culture in Southeast AsiaLeonard Y. Andaya4 Istana, Desa, Tariqah: Inter-court Relations of Zapin in the Malay Sultanates of Sumatra and the Malay PeninsulaMohd Anis Md Nor5 I Madé Lebah, Legong and the Performing Arts in the Balinese Court of PeliatanDavid Harnish6 Wayang Jawa (Wayang Kulit Melayu): A Shadow Play Devised by and for the Royalty of the Malay Sultanates of Kedah and Kelantan, MalaysiaPatricia Matusky7 The Nobat: From Muslim Antiquity to Malay ModernityRaja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid8 Lanna Court Music and Performing Arts in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesThitipol Kanteewong9 Inter-court Relations in the Spread of Nobat and Gamelan as Legitimacy Symbols in the Malay World (c. Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries)Margaret Kartomi10 Bele Bele Bejale: Exploring the Role of the Royal Courts of Kelantan, Riau-Lingga and Serdang on the Circulation and Transformation of Mak Yong in the NusantaraPatricia Ann Hardwick11 The Sultan of Lingga’s Brass Band: Music, Politics and Memory in the Riau-Lingga SultanateAnthea Skinner13 Music and Dance at the Royal Courts of CambodiaSam-Ang SamGlossary of Non-English TermsIndex

Mayco A. Santaella is Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean for the School of Arts at Sunway University. He is the co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021) and editor of Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies (Sunway University Press, 2022).

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesList of Abbreviations and AcronymsContributors1 Appurtenances to Power: Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast AsiaLawrence N. Ross2 Space, Performance and Cultural Connections in Early Modern Southeast AsiaBarbara Watson Andaya3 The Role of the Elite in the Circulation of Culture in Southeast AsiaLeonard Y. Andaya4 Istana, Desa, Tariqah: Inter-court Relations of Zapin in the Malay Sultanates of Sumatra and the Malay PeninsulaMohd Anis Md Nor5 I Madé Lebah, Legong and the Performing Arts in the Balinese Court of PeliatanDavid Harnish6 Wayang Jawa (Wayang Kulit Melayu): A Shadow Play Devised by and for the Royalty of the Malay Sultanates of Kedah and Kelantan, MalaysiaPatricia Matusky7 The Nobat: From Muslim Antiquity to Malay ModernityRaja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid8 Lanna Court Music and Performing Arts in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesThitipol Kanteewong9 Inter-court Relations in the Spread of Nobat and Gamelan as Legitimacy Symbols in the Malay World (c. Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries)Margaret Kartomi10 Bele Bele Bejale: Exploring the Role of the Royal Courts of Kelantan, Riau-Lingga and Serdang on the Circulation and Transformation of Mak Yong in the NusantaraPatricia Ann Hardwick11 The Sultan of Lingga’s Brass Band: Music, Politics and Memory in the Riau-Lingga SultanateAnthea Skinner13 Music and Dance at the Royal Courts of CambodiaSam-Ang SamGlossary of Non-English TermsIndex

Mayco A. Santaella is Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean for the School of Arts at Sunway University. He is the co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021) and editor of Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies (Sunway University Press, 2022).

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesList of Abbreviations and AcronymsContributors1 Appurtenances to Power: Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast AsiaLawrence N. Ross2 Space, Performance and Cultural Connections in Early Modern Southeast AsiaBarbara Watson Andaya3 The Role of the Elite in the Circulation of Culture in Southeast AsiaLeonard Y. Andaya4 Istana, Desa, Tariqah: Inter-court Relations of Zapin in the Malay Sultanates of Sumatra and the Malay PeninsulaMohd Anis Md Nor5 I Madé Lebah, Legong and the Performing Arts in the Balinese Court of PeliatanDavid Harnish6 Wayang Jawa (Wayang Kulit Melayu): A Shadow Play Devised by and for the Royalty of the Malay Sultanates of Kedah and Kelantan, MalaysiaPatricia Matusky7 The Nobat: From Muslim Antiquity to Malay ModernityRaja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid8 Lanna Court Music and Performing Arts in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesThitipol Kanteewong9 Inter-court Relations in the Spread of Nobat and Gamelan as Legitimacy Symbols in the Malay World (c. Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries)Margaret Kartomi10 Bele Bele Bejale: Exploring the Role of the Royal Courts of Kelantan, Riau-Lingga and Serdang on the Circulation and Transformation of Mak Yong in the NusantaraPatricia Ann Hardwick11 The Sultan of Lingga’s Brass Band: Music, Politics and Memory in the Riau-Lingga SultanateAnthea Skinner13 Music and Dance at the Royal Courts of CambodiaSam-Ang SamGlossary of Non-English TermsIndex