Presence through sound : music and place in East Asia / edited by Keith Howard and Catherine Ingram.
"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 t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | SOAS studies in music.
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| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000095944 1000095940 9780429326295 0429326297 9781000095968 1000095967 9781000095951 1000095959 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2020) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | 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. |