Songs of memory in islands of Southeast Asia / edited by Nicole Revel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Revel, Nicole.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs, English--Southeast Asia--Texts.

Songs, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twenty-three years of joint endeavors and extensive field collecting of the narratives referred to in the present volume have resulted in the availability of a multimedia archive of Philippine epics, ballads and rituals both at the Pardo de Tavera collection of the Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University, and online. The linguists, anthropologists, and ethno-musicologists who have contributed to this project have long been conscious of the close links between Intangible Heritagea and Tangible Heritagea. - - In the Philippines, sung narratives have been recorded in situa (through both audio and audio-video media), transcribed, translated, digitized, and analyzed by scholars and knowledgeable persons from fifteen cultural communities in the islands of Luzon, Panay, Palawan, Mindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi. - - Meanwhile, other scholars have dedicated their lifelong research to the Mergui Archipelago, central Sulawesi, southwest Maluku, and East Timor. - - Emerging from international collaboration, the scholarship provided here seeks not only to safeguard and comprehend the uniqueness and evolving beauty of ancient sung narratives that are currently performed in the islands of Southeast Asia, but also to defend their vitality in todayas changing world. - - This collection of twelve essays is the most recent achievement of ongoing studies of performances by singers of tales and ritualists in contemporary socio-cultural contexts by means of pioneering initiatives in the Digital Humanities, multiple analytical approaches and expert use of our growing technical capacity to safeguard and explore Intangible Heritage. -

Contents:

part I. Chanted narratives intangible heritage in today's world

part II. The voice, the music, the word

part III. Interpreting as an art.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 8, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5280-5

OCLC:

861081440