Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific – serie
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28 produkter
Song King
Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China
Av Levi S. Gibbs, Frederick Lau
Häftad, 2021
318 kr
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When itinerant singers from China’s countryside become iconic artists, worlds collide. The lives and performances of these representative singers become sites for conversations between the rural and urban, local and national, folk and elite, and traditional and modern. In Song King: Connecting …
Hearing the Future
The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band
Av Denis Crowdy, Frederick Lau
Häftad, 2017
294 kr
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During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold that had lasted almost a century. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named ""Sanguma."" These Melanesian artists heard an …
Minority Stages
Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display
Av Josh Stenberg, Frederick Lau
Inbunden, 2019
927 kr
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Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display offers intriguing new perspectives on historical and contemporary Sino-Indonesian performance. For the first time in a major study, this community’s diverse performance practices are brought together as a family of genres. Combining …
Vamping the Stage
Female Voices of Asian Modernities
Av Andrew N. Weintraub, Bart Barendregt
Häftad, 2019
352 kr
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The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic meanings of female performers in …
Sound of the Border
Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China
Inbunden, 2021
797 kr
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Using ethnographic data collected in China and South Korea between 2004 and 2011, Sound of the Border provides a comprehensive view of the music of Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu), from its time as manifestation of a displaced culture to its return home after more than a century of amalgamation and …
Broken Voices
Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions
Av Roald Maliangkay, Frederick Lau
Häftad, 2020
309 kr
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Broken Voices is the first English-language book on Korea's rich folksong heritage, and the first major study of the effects of Japanese colonialism on the intangible heritage of its former colony. Folksongs and other music traditions continue to be prominent in South Korea, which today is better …
Minority Stages
Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display
Av Josh Stenberg, Frederick Lau
Häftad, 2021
309 kr
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Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display offers intriguing new perspectives on historical and contemporary Sino-Indonesian performance. For the first time in a major study, this community’s diverse performance practices are brought together as a family of genres. Combining …
Mimetic Desires
Impersonation and Guising Across South Asia
Av Christian Lee Novetzke, Kellen Hoxworth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
797 kr
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Through an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators, "God-men," performance artists, and participants in ritual enactments of sacred stories through dance and theatre, Mimetic Desires makes an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of impersonation and guising in South Asia …
Mimetic Desires
Impersonation and Guising Across South Asia
Av Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Pamela Lothspeich
Häftad, 2023
309 kr
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Through an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators, performance artists, and ritual participants, Mimetic Desires makes an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of impersonation and guising in South Asia and the world. This volume defines impersonation as the temporary …
Even in the Rain
Uyghur Music in Modern China
Av Chuen-Fung Wong, Frederick Lau
Inbunden, 2023
812 kr
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Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China explores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. A Central Asian Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people, the Uyghur are identified in China as one of the …
Homesick Blues
Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2023
797 kr
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Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that the book calls "musical storytelling." At its core, musical storytelling is a political practice, presenting potent—if …
Even in the Rain
Uyghur Music in Modern China
Av Chuen-Fung Wong, Frederick Lau
Häftad, 2023
309 kr
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Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China explores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. A Central Asian Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people, the Uyghur are identified in China as one of the …
Homesick Blues
Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan
Häftad, 2024
309 kr
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Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that author Scott Aalgaard calls "musical storytelling." At its core, musical storytelling is a political practice, …
Tango in Japan
Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West
Av Yuiko Asaba
Häftad, 2026
338 kr
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Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working as a tango violinist in Argentina, Tango in Japan reveals histories and ethnographies of tango in Japan dating back to its first introduction in the 1910s to the present day. While …
Javaphilia
American Love Affairs with Javanese Music and Dance
Av Henry Spiller, Frederick Lau
Inbunden, 2015
927 kr
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Fragrant tropical fl owers, opulent batik fabrics, magnificent bronze gamelanorchestras, and, of course, aromatic coff ee. Such are the exotic images of Java, Indonesia’s most densely populated island, that have hovered at the periphery of North American imaginations for generations. Through close …
Hearing the Future
The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band
Av Denis Crowdy, Frederick Lau
Inbunden, 2016
927 kr
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During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold that had lasted almost a century. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named ""Sanguma."" These Melanesian artists heard an …
Broken Voices
Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions
Av Roald Maliangkay, Frederick Lau
Inbunden, 2017
927 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Broken Voices is the first English-language book on Korea’s rich folksong heritage, and the first major study of the effects of Japanese colonialism on the intangible heritage of its former colony. Folksongs and other music traditions continue to be prominent in South Korea, which today is better …
Vamping the Stage
Female Voices of Asian Modernities
Av Andrew N. Weintraub, Bart Barendregt
Inbunden, 2017
970 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic meanings of female performers in …
Song King
Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China
Av Levi S. Gibbs, Frederick Lau
Inbunden, 2018
866 kr
Tillfälligt slut
When itinerant singers from China’s countryside become iconic artists, worlds collide. The lives and performances of these representative singers become sites for conversations between the rural and urban, local and national, folk and elite, and traditional and modern. In Song King: Connecting …
Making Waves
Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific
Av Frederick Lau, Christine R. Yano
Inbunden, 2018
927 kr
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Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), …
Javaphilia
American Love Affairs with Javanese Music and Dance
Av Henry Spiller, Frederick Lau
Häftad, 2017
345 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Fragrant tropical flowers, opulent batik fabrics, magnificent bronze gamelan orchestras, and, of course, aromatic coffee. Such are the exotic images of Java, Indonesia's most densely populated island, that have hovered at the periphery of North American imaginations for generations. Through close …
Networking the Russian Diaspora
Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai
Av Hon-Lun Helan Yang, Simo Mikkonen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
927 kr
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Networking the Russian Diaspora is a fascinating and timely study of interwar Shanghai. Aside from the vacated Orthodox Church in the former French Concession where most Russian émigrés resided, Shanghai today displays few signs of the bustling settlement of those years. Russian musicians …
Composing for the Revolution
Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism
Av Joshua H. Howard, Frederick Lau
Inbunden, 2020
927 kr
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In Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism, Joshua Howard explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Composed only months before his untimely death in 1935, Nie Er's last …
Sound of the Border
Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China
Häftad, 2022
338 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Using ethnographic data collected in China and South Korea between 2004 and 2011, author Sunhee Koo provides a comprehensive view of the music of Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu), from its time as manifestation of a displaced culture to its return home after more than a century of amalgamation and …
Networking the Russian Diaspora
Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai
Av Hon-Lun Helan Yang, Simo Mikkonen m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
338 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Networking the Russian Diaspora is a fascinating and timely study of interwar Shanghai. Aside from the vacated Orthodox Church in the former French Concession where most Russian émigrés resided, Shanghai today displays few signs of the bustling settlement of those years. Russian musicians …
Making Waves
Traveling Musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific
Av Frederick Lau, David D. Harnish m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
309 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), …
Composing for the Revolution
Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism
Av Joshua H. Howard, Frederick Lau
Häftad, 2021
309 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism, Joshua Howard explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Composed only months before his untimely death in 1935, Nie Er’s last …
