Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology
New York City: Bloomsbury Academic (2021), 272 pp.
ISBN 978-1-5013-6007-7 (pdf); 978-1-5013-7574-3 (hbk)
"The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific. These technologies bequeathed media broadcasters with a profound authority over the ways we engage with musical culture. Broadcasters use this power to promote distinct cultural traditions, popularize new music, and engage diverse audiences. They also deploy mediated musics as a vehicle for disseminating ideologies, educating the masses, shaping national borders, and promoting political alliances. With original contributions by leading scholars in anthropology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies, the 12 essays this book investigate the processes of broadcasting musical culture in the Asia Pacific. We shift our gaze to the mechanisms of cultural industries in eastern Asia and the Pacific islands to understand how oft-invisible producers, musicians, and technologies facilitate, frame, reproduce, and magnify the reach of local culture." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Musical Media in the Asia Pacific / Lonán Ó Briain and Min Yen Ong, 1
PART 1. VOCALIZING COMMUNITY
1 Getting Our Voices Heard: Radio Broadcasting and Secrecy in Vanuatu / Monika Stern, 15
2 Sounding an Indigenous Domain: Radio, Voice, and Lisu Media Evangelism / Ying Diao, 33
3 Narrowcasting into the Infinite Margins: Internet Sonorities of Transient Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore / Shzr Ее Tan, 49
PART 2. TRANSFORMING TRADITION
4 Harmonies for the Homeland: Traditional Music and the Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage on Vietnamese Radio / Lonán Ó Briain, 73
5 Mediation of Tradition: Television and Studio Productions of Khmer Music in Cambodia / Francesca Billeri, 91
6 Going with the Flow: Livestreaming and Korean Wave Narratives in P'ansori / Anna Yates֊Lu, 111
PART 3. SOUNDING AUTHORITY
7 North Korea: Controlling the Airwaves and Harmonizing the People / Keith Howard, 131
8 The Party and the People: Shifting Sonic Politics in Post-1949 Tiananmen Square / Joseph Lovell, 151
9 Broadcasting Infrastructures and Electromagnetic Fatality: Listening to Enemy Radio in Socialist China / Hang Wu, 171
PART 4. PERFORMING ACTIVISM
10 “Change the World Gently with Singing”: Queer Audibility and Soft Activism in China / Hongwei Bao, 193
11 Sounds of Political Reform: Indie Rock in Late New Order Indonesia / M. Rizky Sasom, 211
12 Finding Agency in Hawaiian Online Collaborative Music Videos: Reclaiming “Kaulana Nā Pua” in a Contemporary Context / Min Bee and Jordan Anthony Kapom Bee, 227
PART 1. VOCALIZING COMMUNITY
1 Getting Our Voices Heard: Radio Broadcasting and Secrecy in Vanuatu / Monika Stern, 15
2 Sounding an Indigenous Domain: Radio, Voice, and Lisu Media Evangelism / Ying Diao, 33
3 Narrowcasting into the Infinite Margins: Internet Sonorities of Transient Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore / Shzr Ее Tan, 49
PART 2. TRANSFORMING TRADITION
4 Harmonies for the Homeland: Traditional Music and the Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage on Vietnamese Radio / Lonán Ó Briain, 73
5 Mediation of Tradition: Television and Studio Productions of Khmer Music in Cambodia / Francesca Billeri, 91
6 Going with the Flow: Livestreaming and Korean Wave Narratives in P'ansori / Anna Yates֊Lu, 111
PART 3. SOUNDING AUTHORITY
7 North Korea: Controlling the Airwaves and Harmonizing the People / Keith Howard, 131
8 The Party and the People: Shifting Sonic Politics in Post-1949 Tiananmen Square / Joseph Lovell, 151
9 Broadcasting Infrastructures and Electromagnetic Fatality: Listening to Enemy Radio in Socialist China / Hang Wu, 171
PART 4. PERFORMING ACTIVISM
10 “Change the World Gently with Singing”: Queer Audibility and Soft Activism in China / Hongwei Bao, 193
11 Sounds of Political Reform: Indie Rock in Late New Order Indonesia / M. Rizky Sasom, 211
12 Finding Agency in Hawaiian Online Collaborative Music Videos: Reclaiming “Kaulana Nā Pua” in a Contemporary Context / Min Bee and Jordan Anthony Kapom Bee, 227
