Routledge Handbook of Asian Music: Cultural Intersections

<p>The <em>Routledge Handbook of Asian Music: Cultural Intersections</em> introduces Asian music as a way to ask questions about what happens when cultures converge and how readers may evaluate cultural junctures through expressive forms.</p><p>The volume’s thirteen original chapters cover musical practices in historical and modern contexts from Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, including art music traditions, folk music and composition, religious and ritual music, as well as popular music. These chapters showcase the diversity of Asian music, requiring readers to constantly reconsider their understanding of this vibrant and complex area. The book is divided into three sections:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Locating meanings</li> <p> </p> <li>Boundaries and difference</li> <p> </p> <li>Cultural flows</li> </ul><p>Contributors to the book offer a multidisciplinary portfolio of methods, ranging from archival research and field ethnography to biographical studies and music analysis. In addition to rich illustrations, numerous samples of notation and sheet music are featured as insightful study resources. Readers are invited to study individuals, music-makers, listeners, and viewers to learn about their concerns, their musical choices, and their lives through a combination of humanistic and social-scientific approaches.</p><p>Demonstrating how transformative cultural differences can become in intercultural encounters, this book will appeal to students and scholars of musicology, ethnomusicology, and anthropology.</p> <p>Introduction: Cultural Intersections in Asian Music <strong>Part I: Locating Meanings</strong> 1. Indonesia, Meet the Beatles! Sound, Style, and Meaning in Indonesian Popular Music 2. Composing at the Intersection of East and West: Beyond Nationalism and Exoticism? 3. Composing Traditions: Cultural Consciousness and Hybridity in Cross-Cultural Musicking 4. From Humble Beginnings to <i>Qin</i> Master: The Remarkable Cross-Fertilisation of Folk and Elite Cultures in Yao Bingyan’s Music <b>Part II: Boundaries and Difference </b>5. Water Festival as Spectacle: Sino-Burmese Identities, Ethnic Politics, and Public Performances in Macau 6. Nature of <i>Narye</i>: Sounds, Spectacle, and the Politics of Performance in Fifteenth-Century Korea 7. Negotiating Rural Modernity with Acoustemology: The Hakka Children’s Songs in Contemporary Taiwan 8. Peranakan Music and Multiculturalism in Singapore <b>Part III: Cultural Flows </b>9. Imagined Homogeneity: <i>Maqom</i> in Soviet and Uzbek National Projects 10. Sikh Music and Its Revival in Post-Partition India 11. Tradition and Innovation in the <i>Dayunday</i> Courtship Drama of the Magindanao Muslim Filipinos from the Southern Philippines 12. Creativity in Sundanese Music and Radio Broadcasting in West Java, Indonesia 13. Music, Tourism, and Cultural Exchange Among the Naxi of Southwest China</p>