ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0008
Marty Regan
{"title":"Shamisen Works by Colleen Christina Schmuckal: Performed by Tetsuya Nozawa (review)","authors":"Marty Regan","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"160 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47159588","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 : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0004
P. Yampolsky
{"title":"Poetic Text and Melodic Text: Text-Setting in Two Song Traditions of Timor","authors":"P. Yampolsky","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Two traditions of unaccompanied singing in rural Timor—vaihoho duets of Fataluku speakers (Timor-Leste) and choral kananuk of the Southern Tetun (Timor-Leste and Indonesian Timor)—expand poetic texts by inserting vocables and extraneous words according to remarkably specific patterns of insertion and repetition. In effect there are two levels of text: that of the poem itself and that of a melodic text belonging not to the poem but to the melody. The article closes with brief comparisons to some other singing traditions in Indonesia and elsewhere (Rajasthan, Laos, and the Solomon Islands) and calls for detailed study of the structural role of \"fillers\" in text-setting.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"126 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45258841","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 : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0002
Heather Maclachlan
{"title":"Burmese Buddhist Monks, the Seventh Precept, and Cognitive Dissonance","authors":"Heather Maclachlan","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Burmese Theravāda Buddhist monks have varying degrees of involvement with music; this study of 22 monks from across Burma/Myanmar reveals that most of them often listen to recorded music. At the same time the monks acknowledge that Buddhism's seventh precept guides (or ought to guide) their behavior, agreeing that to be \"attached\" to music is to violate their monastic rule. They therefore experience cognitive dissonance, and they respond to this dissonance in predictable ways—that is, in ways documented by researchers working with Western populations. They differ, however, in their phenomenological experiences of attachment.Abstract:","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"34 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44459478","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 : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0001
Polina Dessiatnitchenko
{"title":"Affective Hermeneutics: Love, Mugham, and Post-Soviet Azerbaijani Subjectivities","authors":"Polina Dessiatnitchenko","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Learning mugham in post-Soviet Azerbaijan often leads to intimate conversations about eşq, or the irresistible desire for a beloved—the central meaning of sung ghazal poetry and a form of intensity experienced during performances of mugham. In this article, I present an approach I call \"affective hermeneutics\" that shows how the interpretation of love turns into an affective force that moves beyond the boundaries of the mugham musical model found in standard pedagogy. Moreover, it is my contention that affect in mugham performances becomes a tool to forge post-Soviet subjectivities, characterized by paradox and liminality and best expressed in sounds at the edges of the mugham model.Abstract:Sovet dövründən sonrakı Azərbaycanda muğam öyrənmək oxunan qəzəllərin mərkəzində dayanan və ifa olunan muğamların intensivliyi ilə müşahidə olunan eşq və ya sevgiliyə olan qarşısıalınmaz arzu haqqında səmimi söhbətlərə səbəb olur. Bu məqalədə sevginin interpretasiyasının ənənəvi pedaqogikadakı muğam musiqi modelinin hüdudlarından kənara çıxıb təsirli qüvvəyə çevrildiyini göstərən \"təsirli hermenevtika\" adlandırdığım bir yanaşmanı təqdim edirəm. Bundan əlavə, muğam ifalarındakı təsirin paradoks və məhdudiyyətlərlə səciyyələndirilən və daha çox muğam modelinin haşiyələrində yaxşı ifadə olunan postsovet subyektivliklərini ələ almaq üçün bir vasitəyə çevrildiyi haqqında fikirlərimi də qeyd edirəm.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"33 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45416980","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 : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0007
Victoria M. Dalzell
{"title":"Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology by Zoe Sherinian (review)","authors":"Victoria M. Dalzell","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"157 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46195166","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 : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0005
M. Son
{"title":"Negating Nationalist Frameworks: Aesthetics of Unsuk Chin's Musical Individualism in Twenty-First-Century East Asian Composition","authors":"M. Son","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article discusses twenty-first-century Korean composer Unsuk Chin and her aesthetics to demonstrate how Chin's practices in her music present new possibilities beyond previous scholarly research focused on intercultural interpretations. Through biographical research on and musical analysis of Chin's Violin Concerto (2001), the electronic work Xi (1998), and the opera Alice in Wonderland (2007), I argue that Chin's musical ideas suggest a new aesthetic paradigm beyond the application of nationalistic sound. Furthermore this article examines how Chin searches for her own stylistic position. Apart from any references to her Indigenous cultural roots, this paper draws attention to the issue of expressing individualism.Abstract:본 논문은 21세기 한국 출신 작곡가 진은숙과 그의 미학에 대해 논의하면서 음악에서의 작법이 기존 연구에서의 상호문화중심 해석을 넘어 새로운 미적 가능성을 제시하고자 한다. 진은숙의 《바이올린협주곡》 (2001), 앙상블과 전자음악을 위한 《Xi》 (1998), 오페라 《이상한 나라의 앨리스》 (2007)의 음악 분석 및 전기(傳記)연구를 통해, 연구자는 진은숙의 음악 사상은 자신이 속한 국가나 민족주의적인 사운드를 넘은 새로운 미학적 패러다임을 제시한다고 주장한다. 이와 함께 본고는 진은숙이 토착 문화적 뿌리에 대한 언급을 넘어서 자신만의 스타일 구축 포지션 탐색에 관한 질문을 함으로써, 음악적 개별주의 표현에 대한 이슈를 다룬다.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"127 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43615009","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 : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1353/amu.2022.0003
T. Peterson
{"title":"Sonic Benefit: Buddhist Ontologies of Chant and the Supramundane in Bengaluru","authors":"T. Peterson","doi":"10.1353/amu.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In his edition of the Mahā Paritta Pāli, the late Venerable Acharya Buddhrakkhita—founder of the Theravāda Mahabodhi Society, Bengaluru—wrote that \"[chanting] of the suttas is considered a holy act bringing blessings both to listeners and to … reciters. It is a Puñña Kamma, an act of spiritual merit. As such, reciters put forth great effort … on every word that is chanted and in spreading thoughts of Universal Love (Mettā) on the listeners\" (2014a, x). In this article, I explore the relationships between chant, mettā, puñña (merit), cosmology, and metaphysics at the society and, following Jim Sykes, present a sonic ontology of in-action metaphysical concepts manifested within chant. I then consider the influences this ontology has through its application to a case study: the dāna round, a monthly visit paid by the society to the cancer department of Victoria Hospital, Bengaluru, throughout which the monks chant for patients. By foregrounding relationships between chant and the supramundane, this article departs from previous work on chant that generally focuses on earthly concepts and benefits.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"53 1","pages":"56 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47936685","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 : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.1353/amu.2021.0018
Saida Daukeyeva
{"title":"(Re)Claiming a Vocal Vernacular: Revival and Modernization of Kömei in Contemporary Kazakh Music","authors":"Saida Daukeyeva","doi":"10.1353/amu.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Kömei is a practice of throat-singing that was brought in to Kazakhstan from the Altai region of southern Siberia at the beginning of the twenty-first century and has since been reconfigured as a national sound that is emblematic of the Turkic nomadic origins of Kazakh culture and spirituality. A subject of debate in contemporary Kazakhstani society, kömei is an attribute of ethnomusic that juxtaposes traditional and modern, local and global stylistic elements. This article surveys the history of the kömei revival and modernization, interrogating its appeal as a sonic icon of indigeneity. I argue that by (re)claiming kömei as a vocal vernacular, artists creatively reposition Kazakh music historically and geoculturally and thus project a vision of a nation both connected to its ancient roots and attuned to globalized modernity.Abstract:Көмей—ХХІ ғасырдың басында негізінен Оңтүстік Сібірдің Алтай өңірінен Қазақстанға тасымалданып енгізілген және сол уақыттан бастап қазақ мәдениеті мен руханиятының көшпелі түркілік байырғы бастауларын елестететін мәнді ұлттық дыбыстық рәмізге айналды. Қазіргі қазақстандық қоғамда пікірсайыстың нысанына айналған көмей—дәстүрлі және заманауи, жергілікті Һәм жаһандық сипаттағы стилистикалық элементтерін өз бойына тоғыстырған этномузыканың айырықша түрі. Бұл мақалада көмейдің қайта жаңғыру тарихы зерттеліп, оның байырғы дыбыстық таңба ретінде тартымды әсер ету мәселесі талданады. Мен көмейді вокалдық байырғы тіл деп айта отырып, оны жаңғыртушы өнер иелері қазақ музыкасын тарихи және геомәдени тұрғыдан шығармашылықпен пайымдап, осылайша түпкі тамыр мен жаһандану заманының жаңа реңін қатар ұштастыру арқылы ұлттық танымын айшықтады деп дәлелдеймін.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"52 1","pages":"170 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42861873","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 : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.1353/amu.2021.0020
Valentina Süzükei, S. Quirk
{"title":"Khöömei—Ambassador to the World: An Afterword","authors":"Valentina Süzükei, S. Quirk","doi":"10.1353/amu.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"52 1","pages":"209 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43067397","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}