...Donna M. Wulff Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound . By Guy L. Beck . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1993 . xvi, 290 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 485 that the many series and types...

...Cameron L. White Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China . By Adam Kielman . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2022 . 200 pp. ISBN: 9780226817804 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Bolstered by extensive fieldwork and an array of analytical...

..., and Revolution by Lonán Ó Briain addresses the sonic foundations of Vietnam's past and current political order. With this book Ó Briain steps on new ground, since sound, in general, and the sonic repercussions of sociopolitical processes, in particular, have so far received little academic attention with regard...

... and proposed an approach of sound analysis to examine the protests. Sound, like political movements, is constrained. To understand its meanings, we have to analyze how the sound is consumed and the uses of media technologies and their sonic spaces, the sound's environment. Curiously, Tausig compares the sonic...

... Republic of China, this article explores this question through the sonic experience of the campaign. Previous studies of the soundscapes of the Mao era have focused upon state initiatives of sound-borne propaganda and their role in the transmission of revolutionary ideas. Using a case study of the Hundred...

... to 1971, and still is only provisionally accepted on the national airwaves. The debate over the harmonium hinged on putative sonic differences between India and the modern West, which were posited not by performers, but by a group of scholars, composers, and administrators, both British and Indian...

... novel's sonic imagination played a crucial role in broadcasting solidarity across the Pacific. If in the first volume Puni is the epitome of the victimized Korean immigrant woman who has to work double or triple shifts in underpaid jobs merely to survive and provide for her children, in the second...

... 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...

... and articulation of the revised papers surely reflects that process. RICHARD P. TUCKER Oakland University Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound. By G U Y L. BECK. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. xvi, 290 pp. $39-95 (cloth). In this important book, Guy Beck has taken a new direction...

... and ideological roots of p'ungmul . By examining sonic, visual, and material dimensions of this performing art, the author illustrates the way musical instruments, costumes, performance practices, and “ground formations” of p'ungmul have become multiple signifiers to suggest the nation's history, ideological...

... in terms of its scope and areas of interest, this is a rich ethnographic and historical work that goes well beyond the prevailing treatments of the existing scholarship. This is especially evident in that its primary focus is on the sonic universe inhabited by Jahriyya adherents themselves. This approach...

... to the author, so that the reader may chant them out in the original, noting “The mantras that constitute the songs to the goddess carry her sacred energy, for their syllables are understood to constitute her sonic body” (p. 61). Rhodes includes an excellent analysis of hospitality as it relates to puja...

... Mataram is a critical moment in the evolution of the Bengali language's capacity for abstraction. “In my reading,” he argues, “ Vande Mataram is the aryastotra transformed by the stress of living through the violent, desecrating chemistry of colonialism” (p. 131). The song as a literary and sonic...

... as it is digitally broadcast, received, and retrofitted for rebroadcast through hip hop's sonic, visual, and kinesthetic sensibilities” (p. 4). In tracing how the globally familiar shapes young men's performances of self, identity, and space in Delhi (and particularly in the urban village of Khirki), Dattatreyan...

... sonic structure and expressive conventions “musiks [ sic ] an authentic and nuanced manhood” (p. 92). In the first of his two essays in this volume, Stephen Jones addresses gender issues by calling attention to “a broad assessment of women's progress, or regression” (p. 27) in the study of women's...

... of European modernity. In Listening to China , Thomas Irvine joins this conversation by offering readers a refreshing perspective on sonic interactions between China and the West. In this remarkable work, Irvine explores how European musicians and music theorists incorporated real and imagined Chinese sound...

... subjects visible and “civilized.” The fourth chapter assesses how colonizers used sonic markers of civilization, like English language instruction in public schools, to teach natives to “consent” to their rule, also involving activities such as brass bands, proverbs, child naming, and church bells...

... the most valuable contribution of this book to our knowledge of the music, outlines the formal structures of đờn ca tài tử . The chapter covers mode or model ( điệu ), pitch, ornamentation, aesthetics, repertoire, and other sonic properties of the tradition. However, in line with several other recent...

... in being clear and precise and they are admirably free except for the translations of Decad 10.3 dealing with erotic imagery of archaicizing language. Although the translated poems are on the whole not sonically and rhythmically rich enough to be read as a continuous series of English poems, some of them...

..., and Wolf's analytic insights are welded into the experiences of his protagonist. These chapters are more ethnographic, evoking details of the architecture, the visual and sonic arts, and the interactions of communities of professional and amateur musicians involved in ritual practices (primarily weddings...