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Burma's pop music industry : creators, distributors, censors / Heather MacLachlan.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3502.B86 M33 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLachlan, Heather.
- Series:
- Eastman/Rochester studies ethnomusicology.
- Eastman/Rochester studies ethnomusicology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Burma--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Social aspects--Burma.
- Music trade--Burma.
- Music trade.
- Popular music--Censorship--Burma.
- Popular music--Censorship.
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Burma.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within the highly repressive social and political context that is Burma today. It deals sensitively with issues such as negotiating local and global styles, performance contexts and practices, and the anonymity of informants and the place of Western ethnomusicologists in countries outside the West. Drawn from interviews conducted from 2007 through 2009 with Burmese composers, performers, producers, concert promoters, journalists, recording engineers, radio station employees, music teachers, and censors in Yangon-Burma's largest city and the locus of all pop music production-Burma's Pop Music Industry represents a significant contribution both to popular music studies and to Southeast Asian studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The creators of Burmese pop music
- The sound of Burmese pop songs
- Learning music in Burma today
- Six facets of the Burmese pop music industry
- Musicians and the censors : the negotiation of power
- Conclusion : the significance of the Burmese perspective.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781580463867
- 158046386X
- OCLC:
- 704381453
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