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  • Instrumental Lives

    Musical Instruments, Material Culture, and Social Networks in East and Southeast Asia

    by Helen Rees, Terauchi Naoko, Tyler Yamin, Bell Yung, Jennifer C. Post, Maire-Pierre Lissoir, Insee Adler ...
    The musical instruments of East and Southeast Asia enjoy increasing recognition as parts of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage. Helen Rees edits a collection that offers vibrant new ways to link these objects to their materials of manufacture, the surrounding environment, the social networks they form and help sustain, and the wider ethnic or national imagination. Rees organizes the essays to ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts

    Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces

    by Terence Heng ...
    How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city? Through a series of sociological and photographic essays, Terence Heng maps the various rituals, collectives, individuals and events that characterise Chinese religion practices in Singapore. From spirit mediums to the Hungry Ghost Festival, each chapter engages with the social, the spatial and the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

    Edited by Edward L. Davis ...
    Series series Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture
    This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. Experimental ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

  • Singapore Literature and Culture

    Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts

    Edited by Angus Whitehead, Angelia Poon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time, embedding it ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Contesting Chineseness

    Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Chang-Yau Hoon, Ying-kit Chan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Combining a historical approach of Chineseness and a contemporary perspective on the social construction of Chineseness, this book provides comparative insights to understand the contingent complexities of ethnic and social formations in both China and among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. This book focuses on the experiences and practices of these people, who as mobile agents are free to ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Resounding Taiwan

    Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island

    Edited by Nancy Guy ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    This book vibrantly demonstrates how the study of music allows for identification and interpretation of the forces that form Taiwanese society, from politics and policy to reactions to and assertions of such policies.Contributors to this edited volume explore how music shapes life — and life shapes music — in Taiwan, focusing on subjects ranging from musical life under Japanese colonial rule (1895 ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Javanese Gamelan and the West

    by Sumarsam ...
    Javanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they developed and changed through their contact with Western culture. Authored by a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar, the book traces the adaptations in gamelan art as a result of Western colonialism in nineteenth-century Java, showing how Western musical and dramatic practices were ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan

    Innovation, Experiments, and Anxieties

    Edited by Fan Lin, Doreen Mueller ...
    The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemological concerns, political and social agendas, and cultural interests. In particular, they examine the ways in which scholars, professional painters, ... Read more

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  • Musicians from a Different Shore

    Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

    by Mari Yoshihara ...
    Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three. Yoshihara shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Sound Alignments

    Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars

    Edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, Kaley Mason ...
    In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from India to Indonesia, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Excursions in World Music

    Edited by Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl ...
    Excursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to the musics of the world, creating a panoramic experience for students by engaging the many cultures around the globe, and highlighting the sheer diversity to be experienced in the world of music. At the same time, the text illustrates the often profound ways through which a deeper exploration of these many different communities ... Read more

    $242.99 CAD

  • A Song for the Horses

    Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia

    by Kip Hutchins ...
    Series series Global Change / Global Health
    As permafrost in Siberia continues to melt and the steppe in the Gobi turns to desert, people in Mongolia are faced with overlapping climate crises. Some nomadic herders describe climate change as the end of a world. They are quick to add that the world has ended before for Indigenous people in North Asia, as waves of colonialism have left the steppe with a complicated web of apocalypses. A Song ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD