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Asian Music

 

Editor: Stephen Slawek, The University of Texas at Austin

Asian Music, the journal of the Society for Asian Music, is the leading journal devoted to ethnomusicology in Asian music, publishing all aspects of the performing arts of Asia and their cultural context.

Asian Music is indexed and/or abstracted in the AHCI, Current Contents, IIMP, MAG, MLA, Musici, The Music Index, and RILM.

Submission Guidelines; Books, Recordings and Films for Review

Winter/Spring 2008, XXXIX:1
Summer/Fall 2007, XXXVIII:2
Winter/Spring 2007, XXXVIII:1
Summer/Fall 2006, XXXVII:2
Winter/Spring 2006, XXXVII:1
Summer/Fall 2005, XXXVI:2
Winter/Spring 2005, XXXVI:1
Spring/Summer 2004, XXXV:2
Fall/Winter 2003/2004, XXXV:1
Archives

Winter/Spring 2008, XXXIX:1

Introduction: Popular Music in Changing Asia
Jennifer Milioto Matsue
How Does Hanoi Rock? The Way to Rock and Roll in Vietnam
Jason Gibbs
Starting from Nowhere? Popular Music in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge
Stephen Mamula
Treasures of the Island People: Tradition and Modernity in Yaeyaman Pop Music
Matt Gillan
Western Style, Chinese Pop: Jay Chou's Rap and Hip-Hop in China
Anthony Fung
New Technologies, Industrial Structure, and the Consumption of Music in Japan
Noriko Manabe
Lost in Translation: Filipino Diaspora(s), Postcolonial Hip Hop, and the Problems of Keeping It Real for the "Contentless" Black Eyed Peas
Rachel Dewitt

Book Review

Janaki Bakhle.,Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition
Sonia Gaind

Audio Recording Reviews

Noora: A Golden Voice; Wah Rangiya: Passionate Punjab; Bol Ni Chakkiye: The Singing Wheel of Life
Peter Kvetko
Gamelan of Central Java, vols. 5 and 7
Roger Vetter

Summer/Fall 2007, XXXVIII:2

Traditional Chinese Music in a Changing Contemporary Society: A Field Report of the Quantou Village Music Association, Baiyangdian Lake Region, Hebei Province
Zhang Boyu
Rectifying Lasciviousness through Mystical Learning: An Exposition and Translation of Ruan Ji's Essay on Music
Reed Andrew Criddle
Time, Gesture and Audience in a Khyal Performance
Martin Clayton
The Naghma-ye Chartuk of Afghanistan: A New Perspective on the Origin of a Solo Instrumental Genre
Ahmad Sarmast
The Pia's Subtle Sustain: Contemporary Ethnic Identity and the Revitalization of the Lanna "Heart Harp"
Andrew McGraw
In Memoriam: T.K. Govind Vidyarthi (1912-2006)
Margaret E. Walker

Book Reviews

Yu Siu-wah, Such Are the Fading Sounds
John Winzenburg
Matthew Isaac Cohen, The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903
Michael Bodden

Audio Recording Reviews

"Hori Hai": A Festival of Colours!!
Shalini Ayyagari
Mystic Sarod
David Trasoff

Winter/Spring 2007, XXXVIII:1

East Meets West in the Concert Hall: Asians and Classical Music in the Century of Imperialism, Post-Colonialism, and Multiculturalism
Mina Yang
Cycles and Peripheries: An Ottoman Kitâb el-Edvâr
Deniz Ertan
"Digging" and "Upgrading": Government Efforts to "Develop" Music and Dance in Lombok, Indonesia
David Harnish
Flowers on the Battlefield are More Fragrant
Lei Ouyang Bryant
The Guru Recontextualized? Perspectives on Learning North Indian Classical Music in Shifting Environments for Professional Training
Huib Schippers

Book Reviews

Ritwik Sanyal and Richard Widdess, Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music
David Henderson
Henry Spiller, Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia
R. Anderson Sutton

Audio Recording Reviews

Island Dreams: Songs and Lullabies Carried on the Wind
Paul Humphreys
Kartik Seshadri, Raga: Rasa, That which Colors the Mind
Gordon Thompson
Oh, Lovely Parrot!: Jewish Women's Songs from Kerela
Miriam Gerberg
Ilaiyaraaja, How to Name It?
Ilaiyaraaja with Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nothing but Wind
Katherine Butler Brown
Kazakhstan. Le Kobyz. L'ancienne viole des chamanes / Kazakhstan. The Kobyz. The Ancient Viol of the Shamans Raushan Orazbaeva. Akku. Kazakhstan. Kyl-kobyz
Saida D. Daukeyeva

Video Recording Review

Colours of Earth
Edward O. Henry

Summer/Fall 2006, XXXVII:2

The Purvi in Bhojpuri-Speaking India: Structure and Flux in a Disappearing Genre
Edward O. Henry
Gamelan Manikasanti: One Ensemble, Many Musics
I Wayan Sinti and Annette Sanger
Musical Healing in Eastern Tajikistan: Transforming Stress and Depression through Falak Performance
Benjamin D. Koen
Nice 'n' Easy - The Balinese Gamelan Rindik: Its Music, Musicians, and Value as Tourist Art
Kendra Stepputat
"The First Indian Tune That Ever Was Wrote Out": An Early Example of "World Hymnody" from the Subcontinent
David W. Music
Wayan Gandera Redux
Ruby Ornstein

Book Reviews

Nimrod Baranovitch, China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997
Cynthia P. Wong
Kathryn S. March, "If Each Comes Halfway": Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal
Paul D. Greene
Laurent Aubert, Les Feux de la Deesse: Rituels villageois du Kerala (Inde du Sud)
Rolf Groesbeck

Audio Recording Reviews

Qambel Maran: Syriac Chants from South India
Zoe Sherinian
KERALA: (Inde de Sud/South India). Le chant des Pulluvan/Pulluvan Songs
Joseph J. Palackal
Music of Makran: Traditional Fusion from Coastal Balochistan
Michael Frishkopf

Video Recording Review

South Indian Classical Music House Concert with M.D. Ramanathan and At Home with Master Musicians of Madras, Volume 1
Matthew Allen

Winter/Spring 2006, XXXVII:1

Tradition Serving Modernity? The Musical Lives of a Makassarese Drummer
R. Anderson Sutton
Lukthung: Authenticity and Modernity in Thai Country Music
Amporn Jirattikorn
Regulating and Negotiating in T'ûrot'û, a Korean Popular Song Style
Min-Jung Son
Tsugaru Shamisen: From Region to Nation (and Beyond) and Back Again
Henry Johnson
Irish Music and the Experience of Nostalgia in Japan
Sean Williams

Book Reviews

Jonathan P. J. Stock, Huju: Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai
Alan L. Kagan
Henry Johnson, The Koto: A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan
Philip Flavin
Satyendra K. Sen Chib, Companion to North Indian Classical Music
Gordon Thompson
Luciana Galliano, Yôgaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century
Yayoi Uno Everett

Audio Recording Reviews

Visionary Tones: Traditional and Contemporary Kinko Style Shakuchachi Music by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel
Jennifer Milioto Matsue
Walzenaufnahmen Japanischer Musik/Wax Cylinder Recordings of Japanese Music 1901-1913
Jay Keister
Cantemir: Music in Istanbul and Ottoman Europe around 1700
John Morgan O'Connell

Video Recording Review

The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
Lisa Urkevich

Summer/Fall 2005, XXXVI:2

Rap in Indonesian Youth Music of the 1990s: "Globalization," "Outlaw Genres," and Social Protest
Michael Bodden
Singing the Past: Vietnamese Ca Tru, Memory and Mode
Barley Norton
Not Your Grandfather's Music: Tsugaru Shamisen Blurs the Lines Between "Folk," "Traditional," and "Pop"
Michael S. Peluse
Mind, Body, Spirit, and Soul: A Filipino Epistemology of Adeptness in Musical Performance
Manolete Mora
From Country Hick to Rural Hip: A New Identity Through Music for Northeast Thailand
Terry Miller

Book Reviews

Xiao Mei, Bell Yung, and Anita Wong (Eds.), The Musical Arts of Ancient China
Tong Soon Lee
Gert-Matthias Wegner, Vintage Tabla Repertory
Greg Booth
Andrew N. Weintraub, Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java
Sean Williams

Audio Recording Reviews

Drumming and Chanting in God's Own Country: The Temple Music of Kerala in South India
Rolf Groesbeck
Sidi Sufis: African Indian Mystics of Gujarat
Alison Arnold
Music of the Gambuh Theater: Bali's Ancient Dance Drama. Performed by Seka Gambuh Pura Desa Adat Batuan, The Gambuh Ensemble of Batuan's Village Temple
Marc Perlman

Video Recording Review

Wim van Zanten, Play the Saluang Flute, Use Your Fifth Finger: Lyrical Songs from Payakumbuh, West Sumatra
David Goldsworthy

Winter/Spring 2005, XXXVI:1

Relationships between Prosodic and Musical Meters in the Beste Form of Classical Turkish Music
Tolga Bektas
The Donkey's Ears Go Flop, Flop: Miyagi Michio's Koto Works for Children
Anne Prescott
Collaborative Music in the Performance of the Balinese Shadow Theater
I Nyoman Sedana
Pandits in the Movies: Contesting the Identity of Hindustani Classical Music and Musicians in the Hindi Popular Cinema
Greg Booth
Cultural Politics: The African American Connection in Asian American Jazz-based Music
Susan M. Asai
Review Essay: Wayan Gandera and the Hidden History of Gamelan Gong Kebyar
Michael Tenzer

Book Reviews

José S. Buenconsejo, Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, Philippines
Jeremy Wallach
George E. Ruckert, Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Thomas M. Hunter

Audio Recording Review

Agatsuma. Beyond
Henry Johnson

Video Recording Reviews

Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy, narrator, with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, From Africa to India: Music of the Sidis and the Indian Ocean Diaspora
Amelia Maciszewski
Wim van Zanten and Bart Barendregt, Told in Heaven to Become Stories on Earth: A Study of Change in Randai Theatre of the Minankabau in West Sumatra using Visual Documentation from the 1930s
Veit Erlmann

Spring/Summer 2004, XXXV:2

Introduction: Mindfulness and Change in Buddhist Musical Traditions
Paul D. Greene and Li Wei, guest editors
Carya and Caca: Change and Continuity in Newar Buddhist Ritual Song
Richard Widdess
The Dhamma as Sonic Praxis: Paritta Chant in Burmese Theravada Buddhism
Paul D. Greene
The Chant of the Pure and the Music of the Popular: Conceptual Transformations in Contemporary Chinese Buddhist Chants
Pi-yen Chen
The Shakuhachi as Spiritual Tool: A Japanese Buddhist Instrument in the West
Jay Keister
Buddhism and the Musical Cultures of Asia: An Annotated Discography
Paul D. Greene, Keith Howard, Terry E. Miller, Steven G. Nelson, Phong T. Nguyen and Hwee-San Tan

Fall/Winter 2003/2004, XXXV:1

The That System of Seventeenth-Century North Indian Ragas: a Preliminary Report on the Treatises of Kamilkhani
Katherine Butler Brown
The Dragon Taught Us: Hmong Stories about the Origin of the Free Reed Pipes Qeej
Catherine Falk
The West's Songs, Our Songs: The Introduction and Adaptation of Western Popular Song in Vietnam before 1940
Jason Gibbs
Religious Supremacy, Anti-imperialist Nationhood and Persian Musicology after the 1979 Revolution
Azin Movahed
An Old Tradition but a Very New Practice: Accompaniment and the Saturation Aesthetic in Indian Music
John Napier

Book Reviews

Carole Pegg, Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities
Peter K. Marsh
Adelaida Reyes, Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience
Tong Soon Lee
Deborah Wong, Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance
Andrew Shahriari
Andrew F. Jones, Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
J. Lawrence Witzleben

Audio Recording Reviews

Anderson Bakewell, recordings and notes, The Yemen Tihama: trance & dance music from the Red Sea coast of Arabia
Michael Frishkopf
Zhang Xingrong, recordings; Zhang Xingrong, Helen Rees and Jack Body, notes, South of the Clouds: Instrumental Music of Yunnan Vols. 1-2
Joseph S. C. Lam
Hiromitsu Agatsuma, Tetsuro Kadoya, Kazumi Harasawa, and Seiichi Kyoda, producers, Hiromitsu Agatsuma's Beams
Jennifer M. Matsue

Video Recording Review

Martin Clayton and Simon Cook, videographers, Wayang Golek: Performing Arts of Sunda (West Java)
Sean Williams

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