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Austronesian soundscapes : performing arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia /

"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 contempo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Institute for Asian Studies
Otros Autores: Abels, Birgit (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Manchester : IIAS / Amsterdam University Press ; Manchester University Press [distributor], ©2011.
Colección:IIAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 4.
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  • Creating places through the soundscape : a Kalinga peace pact celebration / Glenn Stallsmith
  • Sundanese dance as practice or spectacle : it's all happening at the zoo / Henry Spiller
  • Malay-Islamic zapin : dance and soundscapes from the Straits of Malacca / Mohd Anis Md Nor
  • The contemporary musical culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia / David T.W. Wong
  • To sing the rice in Tanjung Bunga (eastern Flores), Indonesia / Dana Rappoport
  • Tromba children, maresaka, and postcolonial malady in Madagascar / Ron Emoff
  • Fractals in Melanesian music / Raymond Ammann
  • 'Singing spirits and the dancing dead' : sonic geography, music and ritual performance in a Melanesian community / Paul Wolffram
  • Breaking the tikol? : code-switching, cassette culture a Lihirian song form / Kirsty Gillespie
  • Fijian sigidrigi and the performance of social hierarchies / Jennifer Cattermole
  • Tauʼaʼalo : paddling songs as cultural metaphor / Adrienne L. Kaeppler
  • Disconnected connections : Puerto Rican diasporic musical identity in Hawaiʼi / Ted Solís
  • Performing Austronesia in the twenty-first century : a Rapa Nui perspective on shared culture and contact / Dan Bendrups
  • 'To sing is to be happy' : the dynamics of contemporary Maori musical practices / Toon van Meijl
  • Australian Indigenous choices of repertoire in community CDs/DVDs : recording and reclaiming Torres Strait Islander sacred and secular music / Karl Neuenfeldt.