Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific 9780824874872
Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ev
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Sounding Waves–Introduction
CHAPTER 1. From the Rice Harvest to “Bohemian Rhapsody”: Diachronic Modernity in Angklung Performance
CHAPTER 2. Soundtracks for the Masses: Transmediating India in Dangdut Films of Indonesia
CHAPTER 3. Localizing Global Sound Worlds in Bali and Lombok
CHAPTER 4. “Molihua”: Culture and Meaning of China’s Most Well-Traveled Folksong
CHAPTER 5. Finding a Niche for the Avant-Garde Outside the Academy in the Early 2000s: A Radical Moment in Korea’s Fusion Music
CHAPTER 6. Singing Policemen, Dancing Firemen: Alliance Building and Interethnic Remasculinization in Post–World War II Hawai‘i
CHAPTER 7. Kenny Endo and a Dream: From Interzones to Solidarities
CHAPTER 8. Performing Paradise: Hawaiian ‘Ukulele in Japanese Settings
CHAPTER 9. Hawaiian and American Pasts Confronting a Native Hawaiian and a Globalized Present: Reworking Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole
Contributors
Index
