The Voice of Asia
Author: James A. Michener
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 260
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Author: James A. Michener
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Tait
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Dutton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1317452445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning more than a millennium, this anthology gathers literary sources from across the entire region of Southeast Asia. Its 24 selections derive from a variety of genres and reflect the diverse range of cultural influences the region has experienced. The literary excerpts illustrate the impact of religious and ideological currents from early Buddhism to Islam and Roman Catholicism. The selections reveal how cultural influences from South Asia, China, the Arabic world, and Europe arrived in Southeast Asia and left their marks in the realms of literature, society, and culture. The readings include religious works, folklore, epic poems, short stories, and the modern novel. They range from the Cambodian medieval version of the Ramayana to the 16th century Javanese tales to modern Thai short stories and include selections from Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, and Burma.
Author: Andrew N. Weintraub
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0824874196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic meanings of female performers in popular music of Asia. Women surfaced as popular icons in different guises in different Asian countries through different routes of circulation. Often, these women established prominent careers within colonial conditions, which saw Asian societies in rapid transition and the vernacular and familiar articulated with the novel and the foreign. These female performers were not merely symbols of times that were rapidly changing. Nor were they simply the personification of global historical changes. Female entertainers, positioned at the margins of intersecting fields of activities, created something hitherto unknown: they were artistic pioneers of new music, new cinema, new forms of dance and theater, and new behavior, lifestyles, and morals. They were active agents in the creation of local performance cultures, of a newly emerging mass culture, and the rise of a region-wide and globally oriented entertainment industry. Vamping the Stage is the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia, showcasing cutting-edge research conducted by scholars whose methods and perspectives draw from such diverse fields as anthropology, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and film studies. Led by an impressive introduction written by Weintraub and Barendregt, fourteen contributors analyze the many ways that women performers supported, challenged, and transgressed representations of existing gendered norms in the entertainment industries of China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Placing women’s voices in social and historical contexts, the essays explore salient discourses, representations, meanings, and politics of “voice” in Asian popular music. Historicizing the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, and visual images of female performers, the essays reveal how women used popular music to shape the ideas, practices, and meanings of modernity in various Asian contexts and time frames. The ascendency of women as performers paralleled, and in some cases generated, developments in wider society such as suffrage, social and sexual liberation, women as business entrepreneurs and independent income earners, and particularly as models for new life styles. Women’s voices, mediated through new technologies of film and the phonograph, changed the soundscape of global popular music and resonate today in all spheres of modern life.
Author: Samuel Wills
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D.N.C WIE
Publisher: Dheny Novelius
Published: 2024-10-29
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDive into the haunting depths of Cursed Traditions: Forbidden Taboo of Asia, a chilling exploration of cultural reverence and the dark consequences of disregarding ancient customs. Set against the backdrop of vibrant yet eerie Asian landscapes, this novel follows a group of friends—Lisa, Tom, Amanda, and Jenny—who embark on a seemingly innocent journey to a remote village in Laos. Drawn by the allure of a mysterious old temple, they unwittingly trespass into a world where respect for tradition is paramount. Ignoring the warnings of the villagers, they engage in a forbidden act that unleashes a series of horrifying events. As the spirits of the past awaken, they soon discover that some taboos are not merely superstitions but deeply rooted beliefs with terrifying consequences. As the line between the living and the dead blurs, the friends must confront their own fears and guilt, racing against time to unravel the curse they’ve unleashed. Each revelation brings them closer to a chilling truth that tests their bonds and forces them to confront the darkest corners of their souls. Cursed Traditions: Forbidden Taboo of Asia is a gripping tale of friendship, guilt, and the inescapable weight of cultural heritage. Will they find redemption, or will the cursed traditions they disrespected consume them? Journey through this unforgettable narrative that explores the power of belief, the importance of reverence for the past, and the haunting consequences of ignoring the sacred.
Author: John Aikman Wallace
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard K. Wolf
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780252082986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive research in India and Pakistan, this new study examines the ways drumming and voices interconnect over vast areas of South Asia and considers what it means for instruments to be voice-like and carry textual messages in particular contexts. Richard K. Wolf employs a hybrid, novelistic form of presentation in which the fictional protagonist Muharram Ali, a man obsessed with finding music he believes will dissolve religious and political barriers, interacts with Wolf's field consultants, to communicate ethnographic and historical realities that transcend the local details of any one person's life. The result is a daring narrative that follows Muharram Ali on a journey that explores how the themes of South Asian Muslims and their neighbors coming together, moving apart, and relating to God and spiritual intermediaries resonate across ritual and expressive forms such as drumming and dancing.
Author: Josephine Park
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-02-05
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0198044208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalt Whitman called the Orient "The Past! the Past! the Past!" but East Asia was remarkably present for the United States in the twentieth century. Apparitions of Asia reads American literary expressions during a century of U.S.-East Asian alliances in which the Far East is imagined as both near and contemporary. Commercial and political bridges across the Pacific generated American literary fantasies of ethical and spiritual accord; Park examines American bards who capitalized on these ties and considers the price of such intimacies for Asian American poets. l l The book begins its literary history with the poetry of Ernest Fenollosa, who called for "The Future Union of East and West." From this prime instigator of the Gilded Age, Park newly considers the Orient of Ezra Pound, who turned to China to lay the groundwork for his poetics and ethics. Park argues that Pound's Orient was bound to his America, and she traces this American-East Asian nexus into the work of Gary Snyder, who found a native American spirituality in Zen. The second half of Apparitions of Asia considers the creation of Asian America against this backdrop of trans-pacific alliances. Park analyzes the burden of American Orientalism for Asian American poetry, and she argues that the innovations of Lawson Fusao Inada offer a critique of this literary past. Finally, she analyzes two Asian American poets, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Myung Mi Kim, who return to modernist forms in order to reveal a history of American interventions in East Asia.
Author: Christian Utz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-04
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 113615521X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the background of general trends of cultural globalization and the construction/deconstruction of identity produced by human (and artificial) voices. The essays proceed from different angles, notably sociocultural and historical contexts, philosophical and literary aesthetics, vocal technique, analysis of vocal microstructures, text/phonetics-music-relationships, historical vocal sources or models for contemporary art and pop music, and areas of conflict between vocalization, "ethnicity," and cultural identity. They pinpoint crucial topical features that have shaped identity-discourses in art and popular musical situations since the1950s, with a special focus on the past two decades. The volume thus offers a unique compilation of texts on the human voice in a period of heightened cultural globalization by utilizing systematic methodological research and firsthand accounts on compositional practice by current Asian and Western authors.