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...Heather A. Willoughby Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions . By Roald Maliangkay . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2017 . xii, 247 pp. ISBN: 9780824866655 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Agehananda Bharati Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 Ritual Songs and Folksongs of the Hindus of Surinam . By U. Arya . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1968 . ix , 178 pp. Bibliography, Index. 36 gld. BOOK REVIEWS 869 not wholly succeeed. Pronouncing the magic word...

... with the mechanization of farming and migration, phenomena that have also drastically altered women's compensation in agricultural 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...

...Todd T. Lewis Songs of Nepal: An Anthology of Nevar Folksongs and Hymns . By Siegfried Lienhard . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1984 . (Asian Studies at Hawaii, no. 30.) vii, 221 pp. Appendixes, Select Bibliography. $17 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... Jiang Nü Legend], ed. Gu Jiegang . Reprint, Shanghai : Shanghai guji chubanshe . Liu He . 1998 . “Yichang nanduan de ‘shan'ge’ an: Minsuxue yu xiandai tongsu wenyi” [A Difficult Folksong Case: Folklore Studies and Modern Popular Art]. In Piping kongjian de kaichuang: Ershi shiji Zhongguo...

... of folksongs, stories, sayings, and so on, publishing much of it, together with studies and analyses, in monographs and in journals like Geyao zhoukan and Minsu zhoukan, attracting attention to a rich and fascinating body of culture, which had up to then been almost universally ignored and disdained by Chinese...

... of the Confucian classics (the Yijing as a manual for ancient diviners; the Shijing as a collection of ancient folksongs, etc He also strove to refute the "monistic" view of a consistent origin of the Han race traditionally linked with the idea of territorial integration in antiquity; Gu claimed that such unity...

.... In chapters on "Folksongs," "Legends," "Children's Literature," and "Proverbs," he describes (and illustrates with translated examples) the fresh boldness of folksongs about love with their flouting of Confucian morality, the exuberant irreverence of folk stories, the moral force of fairy tales about...

.... Figure 1. Pyŏngyang Minsok Yesultan at the Silver Light Festival in Ch’ŏnan, South Korea. Photograph by the author. With its all-female cast, Pyŏngyang Minsok Yesultan presented a repertoire that included North Korean dances, Korean folksongs, an early twentieth-century children's song, North...

... from the capital at Beijing, the musical drew on the folklore of Third Sister Liu, whose legend has permeated south China since the Tang dynasty. It tells the story of a peasant heroine of minority origin using her ingenuity in singing and improvising mountain folksongs ( shange 山歌) to help poor...

... (and other aspects of local culture, including mask dramas and folksongs) is widely studied and cited by Koreans, particularly for his assertion that local religion was not an extension or import of Siberian shamanism and so should be called musok (in articles published in 1971, he referred to it as muism...

... Ch'ong or Hong Kiltong who are as famous as the former; proverbs do not always appear where they should. Some errors also occur: hyangga are not "folksongs"; sijo does not consist of "24 syllables" (1041b); and not San-kwo-chih, but San-k«o chih. Is the lexicographer an "unhappy mortal" who, in Johnson's...

.... The following chapter focuses on the introduction of new sets of linguistic data into lexicographical works, including folksongs, proverbs, regional spoken variety, and specifically gendered language. As Hakala argues, “[l]exicographic works that included spoken proverbs represent a shift in the lexicographic...

... 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...

... written and published from 1966 to 1974, all describing aspects of western Uttar Pradesh folklore. The articles speak to several themes: folklore as a contribution to our understanding of traditional society (which here means rural), folksongs as agents of social change, the poetic meters of Hindi riddles...

.... Unfortunately, there is no discussion of the KMT and anti-Chinese movements, exclusion legislation, or the impact of such movements or laws on the community. The final essay, entitled "The Politics and Poetics of Folksong Reading: Literary Portrayals of Life under Exclusion," in contrast to the other articles...

... interested readers. A listing of work song types (pp. 50 54) provides comparative material for students of folksong traditions, although it would be more useful had individual entries been detailed in some way. The sustained discussion of the oiwake song type, accompanied by a transcription...

... then examines the naebang kasa (songs of the inner chambers), minyo (popular folksongs), and kisaeng sijo (poetry of female entertainers) of Choson Korea. In each, Lee finds a literary expression of han. In her fourth chapter, Lee maintains that, despite dramatic change during the late nineteenth century...

... tendency to overestimate the cultural impact of novels while downplaying dramatic performances (including ritual dramas), storytelling, folksongs, woodblock prints, and murals (today largely replaced by comic books, video games, television, and cinema). While Demonic Warfare does mention the role...

... Kiltong who are as famous as the former; proverbs do not always appear where they should. Some errors also occur: hyangga are not "folksongs"; sijo does not consist of "24 syllables" (1041b); and not San-kwo-chih, but San-k«o chih. Is the lexicographer an "unhappy mortal" who, in Johnson's words, "can...