Routledge Handbook of Asian Music: Cultural Intersections

Lee Tong Soon is a Professor of ethnomusicology and Asian studies at Lehigh University and the General Editor of the Yearbook for Traditional Music (International Council for Traditional Music). His primary area of teaching and research is Asian music and its diaspora, particularly on the music of the Chinese, Malay, and Peranakan communities in Singapore, Malaysia, and England. He is the author of Chinese Street Opera in Singapore (2009).

Introduction: Cultural Intersections in Asian Music Part I: Locating Meanings 1. Indonesia, Meet the Beatles! Sound, Style, and Meaning in Indonesian Popular Music 2. Composing at the Intersection of East and West: Beyond Nationalism and Exoticism? 3. Composing Traditions: Cultural Consciousness and Hybridity in Cross-Cultural Musicking 4. From Humble Beginnings to Qin Master: The Remarkable Cross-Fertilisation of Folk and Elite Cultures in Yao Bingyan’s Music Part II: Boundaries and Difference 5. Water Festival as Spectacle: Sino-Burmese Identities, Ethnic Politics, and Public Performances in Macau 6. Nature of Narye: Sounds, Spectacle, and the Politics of Performance in Fifteenth-Century Korea 7. Negotiating Rural Modernity with Acoustemology: The Hakka Children’s Songs in Contemporary Taiwan 8. Peranakan Music and Multiculturalism in Singapore Part III: Cultural Flows 9. Imagined Homogeneity: Maqom in Soviet and Uzbek National Projects 10. Sikh Music and Its Revival in Post-Partition India 11. Tradition and Innovation in the Dayunday Courtship Drama of the Magindanao Muslim Filipinos from the Southern Philippines 12. Creativity in Sundanese Music and Radio Broadcasting in West Java, Indonesia 13. Music, Tourism, and Cultural Exchange Among the Naxi of Southwest China