Asian Music Books

New and Published Books

1. Popular Music of Vietnam

   The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting

   By Dale A. Olsen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

   Based on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict...

   Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge
2. Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia

   2nd Edition

   By Henry Spiller

   Series: Focus on World Music Series

   Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite...

   Published April 10th 2008 by Routledge
3. The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music

   Edited by Terry Miller, Sean Williams

   Series: Garland Handbooks of World Music

   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...

   Published March 9th 2008 by Routledge
4. Speak it Louder

   Asian Americans Making Music

   By Deborah Wong

   Published June 27th 2004 by Routledge