| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 245 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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SOAS studies in music |
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SOAS studies in music.
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| Contents |
Introduction : reflections on the significance of place for East Asian musical traditions / Catherine Ingram and Keith Howard -- China. The shifting strength of place in contemporary big song singing from Southwestern China / Catherine Ingram ; From the heart of the lake booms a mountain song : sense of place in the song-cycles of coastal China / Anne E. McLaren ; Bringing the past to life : creating and contesting place in Kunqu singing practices / Min Yen Ong ; Beijing in the contemporary pipa world / Lu Liu -- Tibet. The alphabetical order of things : the language of place and the place of language in Tibetan song / Gerald Roche -- Taiwan. Lingering across the ocean, rooted on the island : indigenous music and the notions of mountain and sea as Taiwanese identifiers / Yang Ming Teoh -- Korea. The constructed soundscapes of place in Korea, South and North / Keith Howard ; Place as brand : the role of place in the construction of contemporary traditional music in South Korea / Hee-Sun Kim ; The sonic habitus of silk and wood : Kugak's twenty-first-century terrain / Hilary Finchum-Sung ; Not a habitus for the have-nots : the Walker Hill Shows, 1962-2012 / Roald Maliangkay -- Japan. Gagaku and the Kasuga Wakamiya Onmatsuri Festival of Nara : from the sound of authority to the sound of local identity / Naoko Terauchi ; Biwa's place in modern times / Hugh de Ferranti ; Place and locality in Fuke-style shakuhachi : the case of Nezas -- ha Kinpūryū / Kiku Day |
| Summary |
"Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected music of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and 'place' intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It explores how place is significant to the many contexts in which music is made and experienced, especially in contemporary forms of long-standing traditions but also in other landscapes such as popular music, in the design of performance spaces, and in environmentally-centred art music. It shows how music creates and challenges borders, giving significance to geographical and cartographic spaces at local, national and international levels, and illustrates how music is used to interpret relationships with ecology and environment, spirituality and community, and state and nation. The volume brings together scholars from Australia, China, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the UK, each of whom explores a specific genre or topic in depth. Each nuanced account finds distinct and at times different aspects to be significant, and in demonstrating the ability of music to mediate the imaging of place, and how those who create and consume music use it to inhabit the intimate and project themselves out into their surroundings, points to interconnections across the region and beyond in respect to perception, conception, expression, and interpretation. In Presence Through Sound, ethnomusicology meets anthropology, literature and linguistics, area studies, and - particularly pertinent to East Asia in the twenty-first century - local musicologies. It serves a broad academic readership and provides an essential resource for all those interested in East Asia"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Keith Howard is Professor Emeritus and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at SOAS, University of London. He has written or edited 22 books, 170 academic articles, and 195 book/music reviews, and founded and managed the SOASIS CD and DVD series as well as OpenAir Radio. Catherine Ingram is Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. Her forthcoming monograph is on Kam big song, and she recently commenced an ARC Discovery Project on musical resilience |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
East Asians -- Music -- History and criticism
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Music -- East Asia -- History and criticism
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Music -- Social aspects -- East Asia
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Music and geography -- East Asia
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Ethnicity in music.
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MUSIC / General
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Ethnicity in music
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Music
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Music and geography
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Music -- Social aspects
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East Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Howard, Keith, 1956- editor.
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Ingram, Catherine (Ethnomusicologist), editor.
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| LC no. |
2020010555 |
| ISBN |
9781000095944 |
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1000095940 |
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9780429326295 |
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0429326297 |
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1000095967 |
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9781000095951 |
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1000095959 |
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9781000095968 |
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