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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 (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 (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 (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 (2024) 83 (2): 444–446.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Jason M. Kelly Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations . By Pete Millwood . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . vii, 376 pp. ISBN: 9781108837439 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 In Improbable...
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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
... 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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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
... 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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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
... 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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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 (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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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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