1st Edition
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music
520 Pages
by
Routledge
520 Pages
by
Routledge
520 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area.
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Part 1 Issues and Processes in Southeast Asian Musics Introduction to Southeast Asia as a MusicalArea Southeast Asian Musics: An Overview Southeast Asia in Prehistory Waves of CulturalInfluence Culture, Politics, and War The Impact of Modernization on TraditionalMusics Questions for CriticalThinking: Issues and Processes in Southeast Asian Musics Part 2 Mainland Southeast Asia Introduction to the Musics of Mainland Southeast Asia The Khmer People of Cambodia Thailand Laos Burma Peninsular Malaysia Vietnam Singapore Upland and Minority Peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia: An Introduction Minority Musics of Vietnam Music of Upland Minorities in Burma, Laos, and Thailand The Indigenous Peoples (Orang Asli) of the Malay Peninsula The Lowland Cham Questions for CriticalThinking: Mainland Southeast Asia Part 3 Island Southeast Asia Island Southeast Asia: An Introduction Indonesia Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, Kalimantan The Philippines Questions for CriticalThinking: Island Southeast Asia Glossary A Guide to Publications A Guide to Recordings of Southeast Asian Music Notes on the Audio Examples Index
Biography
Terry E. Miller is Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at Kent State University. Sean Williams is Professor of Ethnomusicology at The Evergreen State College.
While Miller and Williams are noted as THE authorities in Southeast Asian music, three reviewers from Univ of Cal-Davis and author of the ABC-CLIO Gamelan volume (Henry Spiller), Cornell Univ (Martini Hatch) and Univ of North Carolina-Greensboro (Gavfin Douglas) will assess this compilation.
