ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0020
J. Hunter
{"title":"Japanese Traditional Music: Songs of People at Work and Play by Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (review)","authors":"J. Hunter","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"158 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42809495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0011
C. Mani
{"title":"Rethinking the Viruttam in Karnatak Music: Music for Poetry","authors":"C. Mani","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Viruttam is a vocal improvisatory form in Karnatak music of South India. It explores verses of poetry using raga as the melodic medium and the natural poetic meter as its rhythmic framework. In this article, I draw on literature, primarily from native practitioner- scholars, and on my own experiences as an established Karnatak performer to reimagine Viruttam from a text- centric perspective. Adopting textual, raga, and practice- based analyses as my methods I reshape Andal’s Thiruppavai as Viruttams in a suite of Karnatak ragas. The study emphasizes the need for a textually responsive Viruttam style and calls for decolonizing global scholarship in Karnatak music by ensuring greater representation of native practitioner- scholar perspectives.Abstract:","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"32 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45223575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0014
A. Mcgraw
{"title":"Feeling Time in Indonesian Langgam Jawa","authors":"A. Mcgraw","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article I analyze rhythmic structuring in kroncong (Indonesian string band) cello (selo) performance. When performing the langgam Jawa repertoire the kroncong ensemble’s cello ostensibly imitates the gamelan’s kendhang drum. But while historically inspired by gamelan drumming, langgam Jawa selo playing has developed into a distinct practice. While selo players imitate kendhang tones, they do not literally incorporate its patterns. Many of my informants argued that beyond obvious orchestral differences, there is a difference of feeling (rasa) between kroncong and gamelan, selo and kendhang, even when they perform the same repertoire. Differences of feeling between gamelan and kroncong can be characterized partly through differences in microtiming, or “groove.” Selo playing in langgam Jawa is generally less “rubbery” than is gamelan drumming. In my analytical comparisons of selo and kendhang microtiming I focus narrowly on one piece from the langgam Jawa genre, “Yen Ing Tawang Ana Lintang,” by the composer Andjar Any. I compare five recordings of the piece, two kroncong and three gamelan performances by Solonese musicians.Abstract:Dalam artikel ini saya menganalisa penataan ritmik dalam pertunjukan cello (selo) kroncong. Di saat pementasan lagu langgam Jawa, pemain selo seolah- olah menirukan alat kendhang dari ensemble gamelan Jawa tengah. Namun, walaupun terinspirasi oleh kendhang, permainan selo langgam Jawa sudah berkembang menjadi gayanya sendiri. Walaupun pemain selo meniru pukulan kendhang, mereka tidak secara lang-sung mengikuti polanya (misalnya pukulan “kenser” atau “ngaplak”). Beberapa ahli musik/musisi berpendapat bahwa, selain perbedaan alat, ada perbedaan “rasa” antara kroncong dan gamelan, selo dan kendhang, ketika bermain repertoar yang sama. Perbedaan rasa antara gamelan dan kroncong bisa dicirikan melalui perbedaan “micro-timing” atau “groove.” Permainan selo dalam gaya langgam Jawa pada umumnya tidak se- “karet” dibandingkan dengan permainan kendhang dalam konteks gamelan. Dalam analisa ini saya hanya berfokus pada satu lagu saja: “Yen Ing Tawang Ana Lintang,” oleh Andjar Any. Saya membandingkan lima rekaman, dua kroncong, dan tiga gamelan, oleh musisi dari Surakarta.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"110 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48768447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0015
F. Schenker
{"title":"Saysay Himig: A Sourcebook on Philippine Music History, 1880–1921 ed. by Arwin Q. Tan, and: Saysay Himig: An Anthology of Transcultural Filipino Music (1880–1941) ed. by Arwin Q. Tan (review)","authors":"F. Schenker","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"139 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44678700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0019
Maho A. Ishiguro
{"title":"Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities ed. by Andrew N. Weintraub and Bart Barendregt (review)","authors":"Maho A. Ishiguro","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"154 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47084570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0013
D. Wiebe
{"title":"“Our Divine Ancestor Jesus Christ”: Performing Arts and Catholic Missiology in Bali","authors":"D. Wiebe","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Society of the Divine Word (SVD) began the first Catholic mission to Bali in 1935. Several of the first missionaries sent were Dutch and American priests with training in ethnology and linguistics who employed their findings to missionize the Balinese. The resultant missiologies legitimized some aspects of local custom, notably recurring discourses of ancestral belonging that were commonly mapped onto Balinese music, dance, and theater. This article examines rare archival material—including the Bali Mass manuscript—to better understand the role of performing arts in the mutually informing history of Catholic- Hindu relations in Bali before and after Vatican II.Abstract:Serikat Sabda Allah (SVD) memulai misi Katolik pertama ke Bali pada tahun 1935. Beberapa misionaris pertama yang dikirim adalah imam- imam Belanda dan Amerika dengan pelatihan etnologi dan linguistik yang menggunakan temuan mereka untuk misionisasi orang Bali. Misiologi yang dihasilkan melegitimasi beberapa aspek adat lokal, terutama wacana berulang tentang leluhur yang biasanya dipetakan ke dalam musik, tari, dan teater lokal. Artikel ini mengkaji materi arsip langka—termasuk manuskrip “Misa Bali”—untuk lebih memahami peran seni pertunjukan dalam sejarah saling menginformasikan hubungan Katolik- Hindu di Bali sebelum dan sesudah Vatikan II.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"109 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48689701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0017
Max Katz
{"title":"Storytime in India: Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience by Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey (review)","authors":"Max Katz","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"147 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48349501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0018
Raja Iskandar bin Raja Halid
{"title":"The Music of Malaysia: The Classical, Folk, and Syncretic Traditions by Patricia Matusky and Tan Sooi Beng (review)","authors":"Raja Iskandar bin Raja Halid","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"150 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48225322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0016
Eshantha Peiris
{"title":"Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth- Century Sri Lanka by Garrett M. Field (review)","authors":"Eshantha Peiris","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"144 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49282971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0012
Lorenzo Chiarofonte
{"title":"Status, Prejudice, and Hierarchical Differences in the Communities of the Urban Burmese Spirit Cult","authors":"Lorenzo Chiarofonte","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay investigates how hierarchical differences and prejudices shape communities of nat kana pwe, urban spirit- possession ceremonies, in central Burma/Myanmar. Looking at the widespread ideas surrounding Buddhist religious values, gender roles, artistic status, and financial success in Burmese society, it argues that hierarchical thinking regulates the social interactions between professional spirit mediums (nat kadaw), musicians of the nat hsaing (drums and gongs ensemble), and spirit devotees. Drawing on the narratives of the participants themselves, the essay discusses how prejudice contributes to modeling the status and prestige of the ritual actors and how they are able to reverse the normal relationships of power.Abstract:","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"33 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45727106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}