| The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music [With CD] Contributor(s): Miller, Terry (Editor), Williams, Sean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415960754 ISBN-13: 9780415960755 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $91.07 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is a smaller textbook edition of the comprehensive Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). It is intended for undergraduate and graduate area studies courses in music, ethnomusicology, and anthropology. Like the original volume, its division into three sections (Introduction to Southeast Asia as a Musical Area, Issues and Processes in Southeast Asian Musics, and Music Cultures and Regions) enables students and their professors to cover a thorough range of material about both mainland and island Southeast Asia within one text. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnomusicology |
| Dewey: 780.959 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 8.04" W x 9.94" (2.02 lbs) 520 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part one provides an in-depth introduction to the area of Southeast Asia and explores a series of issues and processes, such as colonialism, mass media, spirituality, and war. The articles in this section are important in gaining historical, political, and social perspective. Part two focuses on mainland Southeast Asia, with essays representing Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the minority peoples of mainland Southeast Asia. Part three focuses on island Southeast Asia, dividing the area into three sections: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Borneo. In addition to offering a detailed study of the music of each area, it also offers recent perspectives on the gamelan and theater traditions of Indonesia. Questions for Critical Thinking at the end of each major section guide and focus attention on what issues - musical and cultural - arise when one studies the music of Southeast Asia - issues that might not occur in the study of other musics of the world. An accompanying compact disc offers musical examples from Southeast Asia. |