1st Edition
Presence Through Sound Music and Place in East Asia
Catherine Ingram and Keith Howard
Introduction: Reflections on the significance of place for East Asian musical traditions
China
1 Catherine Ingram
The Shifting Strength of Place in Contemporary Big Song Singing from Southwestern China
2 Anne E. McLaren
From the Heart of the Lake Booms a Mountain Song: Sense of Place in the Song-Cycles of Coastal China
3 Min Yen ONG
Bringing the Past to Life: Creating and Contesting Place in Kunqu Singing Practices
4 Lu LIU
Beijing in the Contemporary Pipa World
Tibet
5 Gerald Roche
The Alphabetical Order of Things: The Language of Place and the Place of Language in Tibetan Song
Taiwan
6 Yang Ming TEOH
Lingering Across the Ocean, Rooted on the Island: Indigenous Music and the Notions of Mountain and Sea as Taiwanese Identifiers
Korea
7 Keith Howard
The Constructed Soundscapes of Place in Korea, South and North
8 Hee-sun KIM
Place as Brand: The Role of Place in the Construction of Contemporary Traditional Music in South Korea
9 Hilary Finchum-Sung
The Sonic Habitus of Silk and Wood: Kugak’s Twenty-First-Century Terrain
10 Roald Maliangkay
Not a Habitus for the Have-Nots: The Walker Hill Shows, 1962–2012
Japan
11 Naoko TERAUCHI
Gagaku and the Kasuga Wakamiya Onmatsuri Festival of Nara: From the Sound of Authority to the Sound of Local Identity
12 Hugh de Ferranti
Biwa’s Place in Modern Times
13 Kiku Day
Place and Locality in Fuke-Style Shakuhachi: The Case of Nezasa-ha Kinpūryū
Biography
Keith Howard is Professor Emeritus and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at SOAS, University of London. He has written or edited 22 books, 170 academic articles, and 195 book/music reviews, and founded and managed the SOASIS CD and DVD series as well as OpenAir Radio.
Catherine Ingram is Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. Her forthcoming monograph is on Kam big song, and she recently commenced an ARC Discovery Project on musical resilience.
