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Abstract: A professional journal is a more current statement of a discipline than are monographs or anthologies, which require longer production time and are less nimble. Asian Music 55(2) brings nimbleness to considerations of history, agency and syncretism.Ethnomusicology exhibits a distinctive relationship and approach to history. Since its inception the field has tended toward methodologies that privilege present experience. Pioneers such as Carl Stumpf and Curt Sachs analyzed materials collected by ethnographers working in then current communities and informants in real time. Field research, the examination of the present and the living, continues to be the major hallmark of the discipline, with its bias toward the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Amīr Ḳhusraw (1253–1325) is perhaps the most famous Indo-Persian musician and poet to have ever lived. Born in Delhi1 in 1253 to a Central Asian Turkish father and an Indian mother, Ḳhusraw received a rigorous education in Persian and Arabic, and he held prominent positions in the courts of Multan and Delhi from a young age. He was well-known in his lifetime for his poetic compositions and was dedicated to both his Chishtī Sufi guide, Niẓāmuddīn Awliyā’, and his friend and fellow poet Ḥasan Sijzī (d. 1325; Sharma 2005, 13–15). As a musician, Ḳhusraw’s position of fame within the history of Hindustani music is exceeded perhaps only by that of the singer Miyān Tānsen, one of the Nine Jewels in the court of the Mughal ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Musical genres and styles in South Asia have long been grouped into distinct conceptual categories. The distinction between mārga and deśī, or the “Universal Way” and “regional styles,” respectively, dates back to at least ninth-century Sanskrit works on music.1 By the late nineteenth century, the concepts of śāstra and lokācāra, or idealized theory and customary practice, began to be reconceptualized as a distinction between śāstrīya and lok,2 or “classical” and “folk” music.3 Given the influence of Western conceptions of the folk and the classical in colonial India, Janaki Bakhle and others have argued that the concept of classical music itself—and, by implication, its folk other—was invented by nationalist ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The past remains important to be kept as knowledge.For archivists, this is a lonely path because not many people are doing it. It will continue to feel lonely because the archivist is truly alone.The grassroots community archive of Arsip Jazz Indonesia (also known as the Indonesia Jazz Archive) is perhaps best introduced via one producer and one recording. The producer, Harry Lim, was born in 1919 in the Dutch East Indies capital of Batavia (now Jakarta) and died in New York City in 1990. He never visited Java after Indonesian independence. He identified himself as a Javanese man with Chinese ancestry and devoted his life to jazz. The recording session, “Cattin’ at Keynote,” took place on February 17, 1944, at ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: [African American] blues and sango have been fused so naturally within me. When African people were enslaved and forced to resettle in a new place, and when they didn’t know what awaited and what to expect tomorrow, their emotions and life experiences flew spontaneously through singing that expressed their struggles, separations, pain, and fascination with religion, depicting a kind of salvation. I think this is the message within [African American] blues. [On the other hand,] sango comes from the working class. It is a means of expressing emotion, and it is a depiction of everyday life experience. In the early days, we didn’t perform sango indoors because it was perceived as “inelegant and inferior” to high arts. ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Henry Spiller, professor emeritus at the University of California at Davis, has published extensively on Indonesian musical traditions, focusing on the comparatively marginalized Sundanese traditions of West Java. The overwhelming majority of English-language ethnomusicological research on Indonesia has concerned the well-known gamelan traditions of Bali and Central Java. In his fourth book, Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java, Spiller investigates the largely neglected but widespread and important bamboo music of Indonesia, focusing on its role in Sunda, specifically in the city of Bandung. Spiller’s text prompts the question: what explains the lack of academic research on Indonesian bamboo musical traditions' ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This remarkable documentary offers an intimate view of a landmark exhibition concert featuring Asian American and Japanese women who play taiko. The film focuses on the preparations for that full-length 2020 performance in Minnesota, following the eighteen all-star women through rehearsals and conversations. All play taiko at a professional level.1 The film joyfully depicts the energy, discipline, and technical skill of these accomplished musicians and also provides inside-the-room access to a feminist process of musical collaboration.The first section of the documentary introduces five of the women’s back-stories through voice-overs and footage of their daily lives. Most of the rest of the film then follows them ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at the University of California, Davis. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from UC Davis and a second MA in Musicology from Taipei National University of the Arts. Mark is a transpacific activist ethnomusicologist. His research interests include popular music and politics in East Asia, race, social justice, music in protest, and decolonial ethno/musicology. He conducts ethnographic fieldwork on popular music and dance performances in multiple Taiwanese cities, including Taipeia, Taichung, Takao, and Pingtung.William Rees Hofmann is a cultural historian of music, poetry, and Sufi and Ismā’īlī devotional thought and practice in the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-24T00:00:00-05:00
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