Presence through sound : music and place in East Asia / edited by Keith Howard and Catherine Ingram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howard, Keith, 1956- editor.

Ingram, Catherine (Ethnomusicologist), editor.

Series:

SOAS studies on South Asia

SOAS studies in music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Asians--Music--History and criticism.

East Asians.

Music--East Asia--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Social aspects--East Asia.

Music and geography--East Asia.

Music and geography.

Ethnicity in music.

Music--Social aspects.

East Asia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected music of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and 'place' intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It explores how place is significant to the many contexts in which music is made and experienced, especially in contemporary forms of long-standing traditions but also in other landscapes such as popular music, in the design of performance spaces, and in environmentally-centred art music. It shows how music creates and challenges borders, giving significance to geographical and cartographic spaces at local, national and international levels, and illustrates how music is used to interpret relationships with ecology and environment, spirituality and community, and state and nation. The volume brings together scholars from Australia, China, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the UK, each of whom explores a specific genre or topic in depth. Each nuanced account finds distinct and at times different aspects to be significant, and in demonstrating the ability of music to mediate the imaging of place, and how those who create and consume music use it to inhabit the intimate and project themselves out into their surroundings, points to interconnections across the region and beyond in respect to perception, conception, expression, and interpretation. In Presence Through Sound, ethnomusicology meets anthropology, literature and linguistics, area studies, and - particularly pertinent to East Asia in the twenty-first century - local musicologies. It serves a broad academic readership and provides an essential resource for all those interested in East Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : reflections on the significance of place for East Asian musical traditions / Catherine Ingram and Keith Howard

China. The shifting strength of place in contemporary big song singing from Southwestern China / Catherine Ingram ; From the heart of the lake booms a mountain song : sense of place in the song-cycles of coastal China / Anne E. McLaren ; Bringing the past to life : creating and contesting place in Kunqu singing practices / Min Yen Ong ; Beijing in the contemporary pipa world / Lu Liu

Tibet. The alphabetical order of things : the language of place and the place of language in Tibetan song / Gerald Roche

Taiwan. Lingering across the ocean, rooted on the island : indigenous music and the notions of mountain and sea as Taiwanese identifiers / Yang Ming Teoh

Korea. The constructed soundscapes of place in Korea, South and North / Keith Howard ; Place as brand : the role of place in the construction of contemporary traditional music in South Korea / Hee-Sun Kim ; The sonic habitus of silk and wood : Kugak's twenty-first-century terrain / Hilary Finchum-Sung ; Not a habitus for the have-nots : the Walker Hill Shows, 1962-2012 / Roald Maliangkay

Japan. Gagaku and the Kasuga Wakamiya Onmatsuri Festival of Nara : from the sound of authority to the sound of local identity / Naoko Terauchi ; Biwa's place in modern times / Hugh de Ferranti ; Place and locality in Fuke-style shakuhachi : the case of Nezas

ha Kinpūryū / Kiku Day.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Presence through sound: music and place in East Asia.

ISBN:

9780367345082

0367345080

OCLC:

1142916918

Publisher Number:

99985041009