Full Description
Austronesian Soundscapes is a collection of essays on Austronesian musics that transcends disciplinary frontiers in the humanities and social sciences. In all of Austronesia, music plays a crucial role in the negotiation of cultural identities; yet research on the diversity of the Austronesian cultural belt's music has hitherto been rather sparse. Responding to this gap, Austronesian Soundscapes offers comprehensive analyses of traditional and contemporary Austronesian musics, investigating how music in the region reflects the 21st century's challenges.
Contents
Contents - 6[-]List of Tables and Illustrations (by Chapter) - 8[-]List of Audio-visual Resources (by Chapter) - 14[-]Introduction - 16[-]1 Creating Places through the Soundscape - 26[-]2 Sundanese Dance as Practice or Spectacle - 46[-]3 Malay-Islamic Zapin - 72[-]4 The Contemporary Musical Culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia - 86[-]5 To Sing the Rice in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores), Indonesia - 104[-]6 Tromba Children, Maresaka, and Postcolonial Malady in Madagascar - 136[-]7 Fractals in Melanesian Music - 156[-]8 'Singing Spirits And The Dancing Dead' - 170[-]9 Breaking the Tikol? - 194[-]10 Fijian Sigidrigi and the Performance of Social Hierarchies - 206[-]11 Tau'a'alo: Paddling Songs as Cultural Metaphor - 224[-]12 Disconnected Connections - 242[-]13 Performing Austronesia in the Twenty-first Century - 262[-]14 'To Sing is to be Happy' - 278[-]15 Australian Indigenous Choices of Repertoire in Community CDs/DVDs - 296[-]Contributors - 320[-]Index - 324
