Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Issue 53(1) furthers our editorial intent to serve our readership through a diversity of content. The five major articles and the three reviews cover a range of geocultural areas: West Asia (Azerbaijan), South Asia (India), Southeast Asia (Burma and Timor), and East Asia (Japan, putatively Korea). Authors ' voices include those of practitioners and Indigenous scholars. Although diverse in approach and focus, the major articles exhibit points of confluence concerning subject matter and conceptual themes.Affect constitutes a major theme. Although ethnomusicology has interrogated affect from the early days of Wiora, Schneider, and Sachs, it has recently regained center stage largely because of developments in ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Learning mugham in post-Soviet Azerbaijan often leads to intimate conversations about eşq, or the irresistible desire for a beloved—the central meaning of sung ghazal poetry and a form of intensity experienced during performances of mugham. During my lessons on the tar (fretted, waisted lute), the original plan to go over exercises and the mugham repertoire was interrupted by spontaneous musical ventures, and I witnessed my teachers improvise, captivated by the world of mugham. This musical creativity was accompanied by private stories about unrequited or ill-fated love, memories of people no longer alive, recollections of places from childhood that were dear, and the topic of the divine. In the post-Soviet ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: On July 27, 2019, I entered a Buddhist monastery in Dawei, in southern Karen State in Burma/Myanmar.1 A gracious 30-year-old monk named U Wazira Myana greeted me. When I explained that I was a teacher (sayama) of music from the United States who wished to learn about music at the monastery, U Wazira Myana immediately produced his cell phone. He showed me a few examples of the music videos he had downloaded on his phone, including a Burmese-language pop song and an English-language pop song. Without prompting, and while laughing gently, U Wazira Myana told me that he was doing something wrong by playing these music recordings for me. In fact, he said, he would "confess" his action that very evening.In this article I ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Addressing a ward of cancer patients in Bengaluru, a senior Theravāda monk tells a story of how the Buddha had cared for the sick by offering both "physical" and "oral" treatment. He says the principles of this story are what led him to visit the ward and that he and his monastic peers in the Mahabodhi Society, Bengaluru (henceforth MBSB), will provide everything possible for the patients' comfort. One thing they provide is chant. How, though, can chant benefit these patients' Paul Greene (2004, 2017), Lily de Silva (1981), and others have demonstrated how chant is thought of as protective and beneficial within largely commonplace understandings of the natural world. But the sonic practice considered in this ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In July–August 2011 I had an opportunity to visit Timor-Leste, and while there I spent ten days in the district of Lautem, at the eastern end of the binational island of Timor. (The other half belongs to Indonesia.) I went there to find out about the music, especially vaihoho, a kind of duet singing apparently unique to Fataluku speakers in Lautem. I had heard a few snippets of vaihoho, recorded by linguists, which bore some similarity to the unusual duets of Lamaholot speakers I had recorded in eastern Flores in 1994 (Yampolsky 1995).1 People said the village of Tutuala was culturally the richest part of Lautem and the best place to find vaihoho, so I went there.In Tutuala I met accomplished vaihoho singers ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In the twenty-first century, worldwide scholarship has paid attention to East Asian composers who have been educated in Western classical music, studied abroad in the West, and actively produced works on the international stage.1 These composers include the Korean composer Isang Yun (1917–95); the Chinese composers Tan Dun (b. 1957), Zhou Long (b. 1953), Chou Wen-chung (1923–2019), Bright Sheng (b. 1955), and Chen Yi (b. 1953); and the Japanese composers Toru Takemitsu (1930–96), Toshio Hosokawa (b. 1955), Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–97), and Joji Yuasa (b. 1929) (Everett and Lau 2004). They had gone through Western colonization and liberation and then returned their attention to their home countries for musical ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: During Japan's Edo period (1603–1868), Edo city (today's Tokyo) was a major center for entertainment, alongside Osaka and Kyoto. Among the many forms of entertainment found mainly in and around the pleasure quarters were those that relied on a large number of street performers (see Groemer 2016). When Japan took the path to modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century, a majority of these street-performing troupes disappeared. Although a few still exist today, the most prominent genre is one that became popular after World War II, called chindon-ya. Marié Abe, in this most enlightening book, recounts how this form of street performance adapted itself to twentieth-century modernity, becoming a modern ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: This book is about a cultural movement in South India among Christian Dalits that takes the form of folk song. This movement encompasses people from several social groups in India historically located outside the caste hierarchy and thus considered ritually polluted—untouchable—by the rest of Indian society. The term "Dalit" is an identifying term selected by the people who face such public discrimination as a result of their assigned caste status. It means "broken down" or "oppressed" and thus draws attention to their everyday reality (14). This book examines "the indigenization of Christianity through musical style, theology, and language" (xii) as a way to protest social oppression and reform Dalit social ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Released in 2016 in collaboration with shamisen1 performer Tetsuya Nozawa, this compact disc is composer Colleen Schmuckal's first. It features five works for shamisen in combination with various traditional Japanese instruments and voice.Colleen Schmuckal graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2008 with a bachelor of music in composition and bassoon performance and first began her shamisen studies under the auspices of a Monbukagakusho grant from the Japanese embassy in Chicago in 2009. In 2013 she received her master's in teacher education from Yokohama National University. She is currently pursuing her PhD in musicology at Tokyo National University of the Arts, focusing on developing new analytical ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Victoria M. Dalzell is an ethnomusicologist whose work focuses on ethnicity, ritual, and belonging in Nepal. Her research in Nepal's Tharu communities has appeared in the journals Studies in Nepali History and Society, Anthropology and Humanism, and Asian Music. Her current research examines the congregational song practices of Christian Nepalis. Her work has been supported by a Fulbright IIE Grant and a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. She received her PhD from the University of California, Riverside.Bruno Deschênes is a composer, ethnomusicologist, world music journalist, and shakuhachi performer. His main field of research as an independent scholar is the aesthetics of Japanese ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
Subscription journal
[305 journals]
