ASIAN MUSICPub Date : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0003
Bradford J. Garvey
{"title":"The Doors of Melody: The Iraqi Maqām as a Tradition of Process","authors":"Bradford J. Garvey","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The current practice of the Iraqi maqām (Ar. maqām al-ʿirāqī), the urban art song of Iraq, is a historical product of the lived experiences of its performers, who have been accumulating its components and implementing their aesthetic principles in a genealogical format since at least the 10th century AH (17th century AD). In this article, I survey recent Iraqi historiographical literature to reveal the ways in which Iraqi scholars conceive of the Iraqi maqām tradition and its transmission. By analyzing a selection of performances, I argue that the Iraqi maqām is best understood as a cumulative and iterative tradition in process rather than in progress.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"59 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44220533","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 : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0008
T. Miller
{"title":"Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll by John Pirozzi and LinDa Saphan (review)","authors":"T. Miller","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"132 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44592197","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 : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0001
Virginia Danielson
{"title":"Listening to Arab Women's Voices: Society for Asian Music 2018 Keynote Address","authors":"Virginia Danielson","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article illustrates the near-constant presence of Arab women's musical voices in Middle Eastern societies and the ways in which these voices affected their societies and exercised power. Examples are drawn from the centuries of the Islamic Empire, the decades surrounding World War I in Cairo, Egypt, and the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in the Arabian Gulf and Peninsula. Attention is given to theories of voice. Emphasis lies on urban, usually professional, performers.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"26 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46075235","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 : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0010
M. E. Soydaş
{"title":"Writing the History of \"Ottoman Music.\" ed. by Martin Greve (review)","authors":"M. E. Soydaş","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"118 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44989845","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 : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0007
Julia Topper
{"title":"Spring Sounds Spring Seas by James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi; Yumi Kurosawa, koto (review)","authors":"Julia Topper","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"150 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44921392","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 : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0002
A. Elias
{"title":"Man Yar Pyae U Tin and the Burmese Slide Guitar: Constructing and Deconstructing Narratives of Cultural Exchange","authors":"A. Elias","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The slide guitar's history in Burmese culture is interlaced with narratives that bind together themes of romance, modernization, royal patronage, and colonial maritime economies. Drawing from fieldwork with the last Burmese slide guitar master, Man Yar Pyae U Tin, this paper details the instrument's adaptation to Burmese musical tonalities and aesthetics and its role in the performing arts renaissance of the early twentieth century. This ethnographic project connects to a discussion on the framing of cultural exchange and the rhetoric of terminological choice, promoting a symbolic, functional, and material approach to understanding the slide guitar's journey through Asia.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"27 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44528726","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 : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0004
R. Rizzo
{"title":"Knowledge Transmission in Javanese Karawitan: Is It Time for an Ontological Turn?","authors":"R. Rizzo","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The transmission of knowledge in the context of Javanese gamelan music underwent significant changes over the course of a busy twentieth century. Whereas the previously implied learning patterns involved the paramount importance of kinship and neighborhood ties, the postcolonial condition, embedded in a modern nation-state apparatus, promoted seemingly modern technologies of learning and transmission—notably written notation and academic institutions. The aim of this article is to complicate this modernization narrative by drawing on contemporary anthropological theory. Approaching the issue of knowledge transmission through the lens of phenomenology, I argue, allows us to appreciate it as it unfolds in everyday interaction instead of assuming its course under the aegis of abstract macroprocesses.Penyebaran pengetahuan dalam conteks gamelan Jawa mengalami perubahan yang penting selama abad keduapuluh. Pola pembelajaran yang sebelumnya berlaku melibatkan kepentingan hubungan keluarga dan lingkungan sekitar, sedangkan kondisi post-kolonial, yang diterapkan pada aparat negara bangsa, mendukung teknik pembelajaran dan penyebaran yang dianggap moderen—terutamanya penulisan notasi dan lembaga akademik. Tujuan artikel ini adalah mendalami naratif modernisasi ini dengan mengembangkan dari teori antropologis kontemporer. Saya berpendapat bahwa pendekatan isu penyebaran pengetahuan tersebut lewat fenomenologi memungkinkan kita untuk menghargai caranya munculnya di dalam interaksi sehari-hari, daripada mengganggap perkembangannya di dalam abstraksi proses makro.","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"117 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43499116","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 : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0013
T. Miller
{"title":"Hmong Songs of Memory: Traditional Secular and Sacred Hmong Music; Essays, Images, and Film by Victoria Vorreiter (review)","authors":"T. Miller","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"127 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47544400","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 : 2020-01-13DOI: 10.1353/amu.2020.0012
Tanya Merchant
{"title":"The Music of Central Asia ed. by Theodore Levin, Saida Daukeyeva, and Elmira Köchümkulova (review)","authors":"Tanya Merchant","doi":"10.1353/amu.2020.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.2020.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43622,"journal":{"name":"ASIAN MUSIC","volume":"51 1","pages":"125 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/amu.2020.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45234644","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}