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The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 38 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 November 1978
... edition must be wary. Faults notwithstanding, I can think of no other work that would serve more usefully as a practical guide to the Kabuki theater than this volume. University ofCalifornia, Berkeley FRANK T. MOTOFUJI The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan. BY SUSAN MATISOFF. New York: Columbia...
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The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1325–1326.
Published: 01 November 2003
...José S. Buenconsejo The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution . By Margaret J. Kartomi . Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester : University of Rochester Press , 2002 . xxii, 123 pp. CD. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...
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Music of Afghanistan: Professional Musicians in the City of Herat
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 896–897.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Charles Capwell Music of Afghanistan: Professional Musicians in the City of Herat . By John Baily . Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology. New York : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 896...
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Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 444–446.
Published: 01 May 2024
... diplomacy could be as diplomats, scientists, Ping-Pong players, musicians, businesspeople, congressmen, performers, and scholars all sought their own aims in the context of US-China relations. What emerges from this menagerie is a diverse, impermanent community that was often more scrum than chorus...
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On Music and Musicians of Hindoostan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 876–877.
Published: 01 August 1985
...Joan L. Erdman On Music and Musicians of Hindoostan . By Ashok D. Ranade . New Delhi : Promila , 1984 . 208 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Index. $32.50. (Distributed in the U.S. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 876...
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Auspicious Music in a Changing Society: The Damāi Musicians of Nepal
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1051–1052.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Kay Norton Auspicious Music in a Changing Society: The Damāi Musicians of Nepal . By Carol Tingey . SOAS Musicology Series, Vol. 2. London : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , 1994 . xvii, 284 pp. £35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Music and Society in Late Colonial India: A Study of Esraj in Gaya
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 25–49.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Tirthankar Roy Abstract In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian classical music was in transition. Most readings of the transition stress the choices of the professional musicians, as these musicians and the institutions in which they functioned were caught up in political...
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Ecological Degradation and Endangered Ethnicities: China's Minority Environmental Discourses as Manifested in Popular Songs
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of popular songs by famous Mongolian, Uyghur, and Tibetan musicians, along with interviews with the musicians who created them and other minority intellectuals, this article proposes that China's minority intellectuals have appropriated the global discourse of environmentalism to construct minority...
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Brahmins and Shamans in Pahari Religion
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 53–69.
Published: 01 June 1964
... ritual such as temple keepers of various castes, barbers, carpenters, musicians, etc. (Dube, 1955; Opler and Singh, 1948; Planalp, 1956; Srinivas, 1952). Many of these patterns of religious participation are described and prescribed in the Sanskritic literature of Hinduism, and so fall within the “great...
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Reconciling Nations and Citizenship: Meaning, Creativity, and the Performance of a North Korean Troupe in South Korea
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 387–409.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Sunhee Koo Abstract Since 2000, a number of performing troupes have been established in South Korea, made up largely of musicians and dancers who were professionally trained in North Korea prior to their migration and presenting a range of music and dances related to both the North and South...
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The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 42 (1): 194–195.
Published: 01 November 1982
.... Although Indian classical music has been the subject of innumerable books and articles, until this work by Daniel Neuman (which deals only minimally with musical sound), very little had been written about the world of Indian music the thoughts, values, organization, and actions of the musicians...
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Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 291–293.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Vietnamese jazz has never received thorough documentation, so Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam is a very welcome addition to music scholarship. The book features conversations held from 2009 to 2017 “over whiskeys and smokes” (xiii) between academic Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and self-taught jazz musician Quyền...
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Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1199–1201.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 There is a certain bravado in producing a British-style ethnographic atlas of any region in India in light of scholarly and ideological critiques of such works from both their colonial and our postmodern perspectives. Yet an atlas of western Rajasthan's musicians creates...
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Recentering Cambodian Survivors in Literary and Academic Texts - Music of the Ghosts and From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1128–1131.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and the musicians who died, are key to the novel's composition. Music, even a single note, more than literal language, has the ability to communicate essential truths that are beyond the reach of words with their loaded meanings; accessing this truth metaphorically through music is the objective of Ratner's...
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Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 995–996.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Bourdaghs's Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon is titled after a 1973 song of the same name by the Japanese rock band Happy End. The members of Happy End, like many postwar musicians, negotiated a complex relationship of admiration and resistance to American cultural hegemony. If rock had to be sung...
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Music of the Korean Renaissance: Songs and dances of the fifteenth century
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 852–854.
Published: 01 August 2011
... surviving repertoire of that century, designed for use by students of Asian music as well as a general audience of musicians and musicologists. The ensemble scores include the lyrics in Romanized Korean and English translations, with additional transcription in Chinese character writing for some...
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Sounds from the Other Side: Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 643–645.
Published: 01 August 2022
... put on his headphones and tuned out his inquisitive seatmate. In Sounds from the Other Side , Powell wishes to move beyond the white, Caucasian consumption of Indian musical culture by focusing instead on the collaborations between African American musicians and their South Asian counterparts...
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Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distribution, Censors
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 846–848.
Published: 01 August 2012
... wishes to “contest the notion that Burmese pop music is nothing more than the outworking of either Western cultural imperialism or local military totalitarianism” (p. 6), preparing us for the evidence she presents on the ways pop musicians deal with government censorship. Second, she argues that, despite...
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The Music of India Indian Music Music of Eastern India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1061–1065.
Published: 01 August 1975
..., the music of India. Peggy Holroyde's The Music of India is an example of the kind of approach to Indian music that must, in the long run, be considered as a pandering to popular sentiment. It is written in a wandering, overly subjective style about a subject where decadence and humbug among the musicians...
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The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York)
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1088–1090.
Published: 01 November 1997
... frameworks in current ethnomusicological literature with which Levin is assuredly familiar) for a historical approach focused on traveling and collecting performances and information about music and musicians. The resulting book offers a colorful, detailed, richly descriptive look at musicians in Central...
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