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Abstract: Issue 54(2) features established colleagues in the field. While Asian Music has been reasonably successful in achieving representative diversity in such content areas as geocultural focus and methodological approach and in such authorial attributes as ethnicity, gender, and voice, the majority of submissions and articles come from younger colleagues. Authors with long engagement in the field have appeared less frequently in Asian Music, which has been a concern for the editor. Their voices and career experience over a number of decades can and should enrich the breadth of perspectives and variety of positionalities for the Asian Music readership.Encouraged by readers’ responses to the publication of keynote ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I have long thought about the pleasure that my attempts to sing while performing the traditional east Javanese female-style dance Ngremo Putri brought to at least some of the musicians and dancers with whom I studied in the east Javanese regency of Malang despite my lack of skill and initial reluctance to study singing due to my own hang-ups. There was certainly the pleasure of seeing a foreign person performing traditional arts for the unusual aspect of it and for the validation that came from a Western person’s positive attention to local culture, a pleasure connected to the psychological impacts of colonialism (Williams 2001, 13; Sunardi 2015, xxiv–xxv). Similarly, there was also the pleasure derived from seeing ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: We know a great deal about the early days of kebyar, but its beginnings are still largely a mystery. What is known is that kebyar music began in North Bali in the early years of the twentieth century. It was composed and first performed in the following villages: Ringdikit, Bubunan, Busungbiu, Kedis, Banjar, Jagaraga, Menjali, and Sawan (Sukerta 2004, 76–81). Although it originated in the north, it migrated to South Bali as well, gradually becoming the most popular form of gamelan across the island.Kebyar’s feverish, almost frantic stop-and-start style—described by Bambang Pudjasworo (2011a) as “serba rumit, keras, menghentak, tajam, dan dinamis” (complicated, hard, stomping, sharp, and dynamic; author’s ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Sitting at the midpoint of maritime traffic from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, the Straits of Malacca continues to serve as the crucible for cross-cultural activities. Cultural influence from the Indian subcontinent from the third century BC to the fifteenth century, extensive trade between the Arabian Peninsula and China before the tenth century, the spread of Islam beginning in the twelfth century, the voyage of Admiral Zheng He to Southeast Asia in the twelfth century, and the advent of European colonial powers in the fourteenth century have long left their mark on the language and culture of peoples in the Malay Peninsula. The formation of the nation-state of Malaysia, comprising the Malay Peninsula ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This paper combines two elements with which we in this field are familiar: selfies and ethnography. They might seem unrelated, but both deal with documentation, presentation, and representation—processes with which ethnomusicologists are acquainted. The recent popular phenomenon of people taking selfies is almost a way of life. Practically everyone who owns a smart-phone has taken at least one. While it looks relatively easy to do, taking a selfie is tricky because one needs to position the phone at a perfect angle and perspective in order to show the selfie taker and the surroundings in the best possible way. For many people, me included, taking a good selfie is more easily said than done (see fig. 1). I have ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The occasion for this keynote was the centenary celebration of José Monsarrat Maceda (1917–2004) in 2017. Professor Maceda was a pioneer in Philippine ethnomusicology and the premier internationally recognized scholar of his generation.1 He was published in international journals, including among others Ethnomusicology, the Yearbook of the International Council for Traditional Music, Acta Musicologica, Neue Zeitschri für Musik, and Revue d’esthetique nouvelle, and in various languages including English, German, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Pilipino (Tagalog). In his earlier years he enjoyed an international career as a concert pianist specializing in late nineteenth-century French music, and he had an equally ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific focuses on the questions of how “broadcasters shape performing arts practice” and how “these broadcasters shape the cultural, social, and political landscapes of the region” (1). The book stands out for seriously addressing the fundamental but often overlooked roles of mediated sounds and creativity in almost all aspects of the everyday lives of people and communities. It provides rich, in-depth insights into a broad array of performing arts traditions in the Asia-Pacific region created, disseminated, and consumed through contemporary media ranging from radio and television to social media and mobile phone technology. Through an interdisciplinary framework with approaches ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Tokyo dazzles the senses. A metropolis where “everything becomes a potential advertisement,” residents and visitors are constantly encountering interesting things to look at, touch, and smell (9). The city is also saturated with sound, from the vibrations of traffic to the music and announcements from the millions of hidden loudspeakers, and from the din of conversations to the vocalizations of animals. In Tokyo Listening, Lorraine Plourde explores how residents, small-business owners, and large corporations craft, cope with, listen to, and try to control public sonic environments in this overwhelming city. Private listening through earbuds and headphones is outside the scope of her study. She concludes that ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Japan’s Musical Tradition: Hogaku from Prehistory to the Present represents the life work and ambitious research of Miyuki Yoshikami, a koto performer who taught courses on Japanese performing arts at the University of Maryland and Gettysburg College. For many years in the latter half of the twentieth century, William Malm’s seminal book (2001) on Japanese music and musical instruments was one of the only English-language resources on Japanese music. Fortunately, in the past two decades the number has grown (De Ferranti 2000; Wade 2004, 2013; Tokita and Hughes 2008; Matsue 2016). Yoshikami’s book is therefore a welcome addition to a growing list of invaluable resources for scholars of Japanese music and theater. ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Composers in the twenty-first century are increasingly interested in concepts of intercultural hybridity and opportunities provided by writing new music for non-Western instruments. Since the early 2000s, Marty Regan, a Professor of Music at Texas A&M University, is one of these composers, creating his own hybridized music for Japanese instruments. His 2020 album, the fourth volume of Lost Mountains, Quiet Valleys: Selected Works for Japanese Instruments, continues to explore the intercultural possibilities of writing for traditional Japanese instruments. Regan’s music creates “hybrid musical soundscapes that reflect the age in which we live, an era based not necessarily on globalization, but on partnership based ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Eric Hung (he/they) is Executive Director of the Music of Asian America Research Center, Curator of the AA+NH/PI Learning Pathway for Smithsonian Folkways, and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. Prior to joining the nonprofit world full-time, he was a tenure-track and tenured professor of music history at the University of Montana and Rider University. Hung is also an active pianist who has performed in Germany, Australia, Thailand, Australia, and throughout North America. He holds a PhD in musicology from Stanford University and an MLIS in archives and digital curation from the University of Maryland.Edwin Jurriëns is Senior Lecturer and Convenor of the Indonesian ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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