Asian Music

Summer/Fall 2009, 40:2
Winter/Spring 2009, 40:1
Summer/Fall 2008, 39:2
Winter/Spring 2008, 39:1
Summer/Fall 2007, 38:2
Winter/Spring 2007, 38:1
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

Summer/Fall 2009, 40:2

Transnational Chowtal: Bhojpuri Folk Song from North India to the Caribbean, Fiji, and Beyond

Peter Manuel

Tales and Fables of the Chang(Harp) in Darvish Ali's Risalei Musiqi

Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek

Synthesizing Identity: Gestures of Filiation and Affiliation in Turkish Popular Music

Songül Karahasanoğlu Ata and Gabriel Skoog

Minstrelsy and Mimesis in the South China Sea: Filipino Migrant Musicians, Chinese Hosts, and the Disciplining of Relations in Hong Kong

Lee Watkins

The Production of Aura in the Gramophone Age of the "Live" Performance

Dard Neuman

Book Reviews

Joachim Braun. Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources

Ruth Katz. "The Lachmann Problem": An Unsung Chapter in Comparative Musicology [Be`ayat Lakhman: Perek `alum be-musikologyah hashvaatit, kolel mikhtavim ve-hartsaot shel Robert Lakhman she-terem pursemu

(Tina Fruhauf)

Saida Daukeyeva. The Philosophy of Music by Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi

(Inna Naroditskaya)

Emma Baulch. Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali.

Timothy D. Taylor. Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World

(Andrew C. McGraw)

Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon, eds. The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.

(Sean Williams)

Deborah Wong. Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music

(Eric Hung)

Audio Recording Reviews

D'Bhuyaa saaj: Live in India

(Peter Manuel)

El Tarab El Aseel by Riad Abdel Gawad

(Lisa Urkevich)

Iran: Le dotār du Khorassan, featuring Hamid Khezri

(Amaneh Youssefzadeh)

Video Recording Review

Drumming Out a Message: Eisa and the Okinawan Diaspora

(Ricardo D. Trimillos)

Winter/Spring 2009, 40:1

Introduction: Music and the Asian Diaspora

Eric Hung

Performing Race and Place in Asian America: Korean American Adoptees, Musical Theatre, and the Land of 10,000 Lakes

Lei Ouyang Bryant

Lou Harrison's Music for Western Instruments and Gamelan: Even More Western than It Sounds

Henry Spiller

Popular Hindi Film Song Sequences Set in the Indian Diaspora and the Negotiating of Indian Identity

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya

The Voicing of the Voiceless in Tan Dun's The Map Horizon of Expectation and the Rhetoric of National Style

Samson Young

Asian Masculinities and Parodic Possibility in Odaiko Solos and Filmic Representations

Paul J. Yoon

Performing “Chineseness” on the Western Concert Stage: The Case of Lang Lang

Eric Hung

Book Reviews

Alison McQueen Tokita, Kiyomoto-bushi: Narrative Music of the Kabuki Theater
Jay Keister, Shaped by Japanese Music: Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisenin Tokyo

Anne Prescott

Audio Recording Reviews

MAHÂRÂSHTRA: (Inde/India) Chants des Konkanî de Kochi/ Songs of the Konkanî from Kochi

(Micah Martin)

Gamelan of Central Java II: Ceremonial Music; Gamelan of Central Java IV: Spiritual Music

(Sarah Weiss)

Summer/Fall 2008, 39:2

What's That Sound? Korean Fusion Music and the Ascendancy of the Haegǔm

R. Anderson Sutton

Nationalism, Nationalization, and the Egyptian Music Industry: Muhammad Fawzy, Misrphon, and Sawt al-Qahira (SonoCairo)

Michael Frishkopf

Xylophones in Thailand and Java: A Comparative Phenomenology of Musical Instruments

Jan Mrázek

Temple Music Traditions in Hindu South India: Periya Mēlam and Its Performance Practice

Yoshitaka Terada

Typology of Musical Structures in the Japanese Shintô Ritual Kagura

János Kárpáti

Innovation in the Guise of Tradition: Music among the Chin Population of Indianapolis, USA

Heather MacLachlan

Book Reviews

Lalita du PerronHindi Poetry in a Musical Genre: Thumri Lyrics

(Amanda Weidman)

Rob Simms The Repertoire of Iraqi Maqam

(Scott Marcus)

Audio Recording Reviews

Song of the True Hand. Elizabeth Reian Bennett (shakuhachi)

(Jay Keister)

Bhakti: The Sound of the Soul

(Meilu Ho)

Gamelan de Solo - Le jeu des Sentiments (A Garland of Moods)

(Sumarsam)

Winter/Spring 2008, 39:1

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, 38:2

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, 38:1

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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