Austronesian Soundscapes
Performing Arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
In Austronesia—the region that stretches from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east—music plays a vital role in both the construction and expression of social and cultural identities. Yet research into the music of Austronesia has hitherto been sparse. Drawing together contemporary cultural studies and musical analysis, Austronesian Soundscapes will fill this research gap, offering a comprehensive analysis of traditional and contemporary Austronesian music and, at the same time, investigating how music reflects the challenges that Austronesian cultures face in this age of globalization.
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List of Audio-visual Resources
Introduction
Birgit Abels
Southeast Asia
1. Creating Places through the Soundscape: A Kalinga Peace Pact Celebration
Glenn Stallsmith
2. Sundanese Dance as Practice or Spectacle: It’s All Happening at the Zoo
Henry Spiller
3. Malay-Islamic Zapin: Dance and Soundscapes from the Straits of Malacca
Mohd Anis Md Nor
4. The Contemporary Musical Culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia
David T. W. Wong
5. To Sing the Rice in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores), Indonesia
Dana Rappoport
Madagascar
6. Tromba Children, Maresaka, and Postcolonial Malady in Madagascar
Ron Emoff
Oceania
7. Fractals in Melanesian Music
Raymond Ammann
8. ‘Singing Spirits and The Dancing Dead’: Sonic Geography, Music and Ritual Performance in a Melanesian Community
Paul Wolffram
9. Breaking the Tikol? Code-switching, Cassette Culture and a Lihirian Song Form
Kirsty Gillespie
10. Fijian Sigidrigi and the Performance of Social Hierarchies
Jennifer Cattermole
11. Tau’a’alo: Paddling Songs as Cultural Metaphor
Adrienne L. Kaeppler
12. Disconnected Connections: Puerto Rican Diasporic Musical Identity in Hawai’i
Ted Solís
13. Performing Austronesia in the Twenty-first Century: A Rapa Nui Perspective on Shared Culture and Contact
Dan Bendrups
14. ‘To Sing is to be Happy’: The Dynamics of Contemporary Maori Musical Practices
Toon van Meijl
15. Australian Indigenous Choices of Repertoire in Community CDs/DVDs: Recording and Reclaiming Torres Strait Islander Sacred and Secular Music
Karl Neuenfeldt
Contributors
Index
Music: Ethnomusicology
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