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Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India

Philip Lutgendorf

Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1303–1305.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059306

Published: 01 November 1994

...Philip Lutgendorf Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India . By Peter Manuel . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 1993 . xix, 302 pp. $22.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1303 cave...

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Cambodian Traditional Music in Minnesota

David P. Chandler

Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 904.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2056523

Published: 01 August 1985

...David P. Chandler Cambodian Traditional Music in Minnesota . Cassette produced by Cliff Sloane ; notes and translations by Cliff Sloane and Sithoeurn Chem . Kent, Ohio : World Music Enterprises , 1984 . Cassette. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985...

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Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java

Bethany J. Collier Malone

Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 355–357.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911808000582

Published: 01 February 2008

... opportunities for other dalang , new innovations in musical accompaniment and developments in mass media technologies (cassettes, television broadcasts, and print media advertisements) further widened the division. The gamelan multilaras , a modern ensemble capable of playing seven different laras (tuning...

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Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia

Brian K. Smith

Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 220–222.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2646396

Published: 01 February 1997

... in its various incarnations (movies, television, video and cassette tape recordings, etc The revolutionary changes wrought by this "second wave" in communications technology (the "first wave" being that attendant upon the importation of the printing press) are extremely far-reaching, touching...

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Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India

Leela Prasad

Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1157–1158.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911816001510

Published: 01 November 2016

... labor. And fourth, while Bollywood music and cassette culture have adapted and popularized women's folksongs, they have also displaced their lived primacy and diversity. With these themes threading throughout Jassal's argument, chapter 1 presents songs sung by women during their daily grinding...

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Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music

Leonard C. Holvik

Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 412–414.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2056039

Published: 01 May 1987

... Princeton University Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music. By WILLIAM P. MALM. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xxii, 222 pp. Illustrations, Figures, Musical Examples, List of Cassette Examples, Notes, Glossary Index. $32.00. The author sets out to reveal ordinarily unobserved...

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The Bazaar of the Storytellers

Frances W. Pritchett

Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 906–907.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2058202

Published: 01 November 1989

..., is an eastern Iranian one written in a modified form of Persian script. This book of Pashto stories, selected and translated mostly from modern cassette versions available in recent years in the Qissakhwani Bazaar in Peshawar, marks a great leap forward in Pashto studies. Lok Virsa, the official Pakistani...

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Articulating Regionalism through Popular Music: The Case of Nauchami Narayana in the Uttarakhand Himalayas

Stefan Fiol

Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 447–473.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911812000101

Published: 01 May 2012

... was particularly evident in the early 1990s, when cassette albums, radio broadcasts, pamphlets, and newspaper articles created a groundswell of support for the formation of a separate Uttarakhand state by decrying the corrupting influence of plains-based governance through land-grabbing schemes and self-serving...

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Unfolding a Maṇḍala: The Buddhist Cave Temples at Ellora

Cynthia Packert Atherton

Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1301–1303.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059305

Published: 01 November 1994

... PACKERT ATHERTON Middlebury College Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India. By PETER M A N U E L . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. xix, 302 pp. $22.00. Although little noticed by Western observers, the proliferation of audiocassette technology in India...

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The Trịnh Công Sơn Phenomenon

John C. Schafer

Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (3): 597–643.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911807000915

Published: 01 August 2007

..., as record players were too expensive for most Vietnamese. The arrival of the cassette recorder facilitated the circulation of Sơn's songs. When Sơn went to Ho Chi Minh City in 1979, the authorities there were pushing a movement called “Political Songs” (Ca Khúc Chính Trị)—that is, songs to encourage...

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Asian Popular Culture

Mark Liechty

Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 153–155.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2646356

Published: 01 February 1997

..., performers) and briefly describe trends and market conditions. Deborah Wong compares two Thai cassette covers for what they reveal about authenticity, ownership, and commodification in the contrasting modes of commercial promotion of Thai contemporary pop and classical music. Chapters 5 to 7 deal with cinema...

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A Careful Village: Comedic Dialogues and Linguistic Modernity in China's Tibet

Timothy Thurston

Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 453–474.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817001383

Published: 01 May 2018

... in the 1980s, Tibetan stage performers coopted these comedies to champion a host of social issues, including the promotion of science over religion, Tibetan language use, secular education, and free-choice marriage. Performed on state stages, broadcast on state-sponsored radio airwaves, sold as cassettes...

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059307

Published: 01 November 1994

... the nation into irreconcilable and antagonistic interest groups" (p. 248). The former might be epitomized by the use of folksong cassettes by the Delhi-based women's rights group Jagori; the latter by the incendiary, anti-Muslim speeches and songs circulated nationwide by the Bharatiya Janta Party...

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Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India

Cambodian Traditional Music in Minnesota

Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java

Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia

Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India

Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music

The Bazaar of the Storytellers

Articulating Regionalism through Popular Music: The Case of Nauchami Narayana in the Uttarakhand Himalayas

Unfolding a Maṇḍala: The Buddhist Cave Temples at Ellora

The Trịnh Công Sơn Phenomenon

Asian Popular Culture

A Careful Village: Comedic Dialogues and Linguistic Modernity in China's Tibet

Khánh Ly on a 45 RPM record released in 1968 on which she and another singe...

Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s

Music of the Korean Renaissance: Songs and dances of the fifteenth century

Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India

Editorial Foreword

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India

An “Agreed” Frontier: Ladakh and India's Northernmost Borders, 1846–1947

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