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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 38 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 November 1978
...W. Michael Kelsey The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan . By Susan Matisoff . New York : Columbia University Press , 1978 . xi, 272 pp. Bibliography, Index. $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 186 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Finally...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1199–1201.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Kothari (e.g., “Musicians for the People: The Manganiyars of Western Rajasthan,” in Karine Schomer et al., The Idea of Rajasthan , vol. 1 [New Delhi: Manohar/American Institute of Indian Studies, 1994]) and Rustom Bharucha ( Rajasthan: An Oral History, Conversations with Komal Kothari [New Delhi...
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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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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 995–996.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Jason G. Karlin Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Michael 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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 852–854.
Published: 01 August 2011
... As noted, it is Condit's primary goal to make the transcriptions suitable for singing and performance of fifteenth-century Korean music by occidental musicians. For those not attuned to the acoustic, lyrical, and rhythmic contours of Korean music, navigating by staff notation alone may be overambitious...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 643–645.
Published: 01 August 2022
... between racially marginalized musicians” (p. 3). So, he asks, “what happens when we consider Black musicians’ South Asian sonic explorations as distinct from those of their white Western counterparts” (p. 3)? Much of the book under review seeks to answer this central question. Powell goes on to argue...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 846–848.
Published: 01 August 2012
... is certainly among these and should figure in the research and teaching of popular music and culture in Asia. A final chapter organizes ethnographic work with government censors and musicians in a framework inspired by James Scott's notions of public and hidden transcripts and Burmese scholar Ardeth Maung...
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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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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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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 42 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 November 1982
... 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 and their relationships with their patrons...