Austronesian Soundscapes

Birgit Abels is professor of Cultural Musicology at the Georg August University of G�ttingen (Germany).

Contents - 6[-]List of Tables and Illustrations (by Chapter) - 8[-]List of Audio-visual Resources (by Chapter) - 14[-]Introduction - 16[-]1 Creating Places through the Soundscape - 26[-]2 Sundanese Dance as Practice or Spectacle - 46[-]3 Malay-Islamic Zapin - 72[-]4 The Contemporary Musical Culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia - 86[-]5 To Sing the Rice in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores), Indonesia - 104[-]6 Tromba Children, Maresaka, and Postcolonial Malady in Madagascar - 136[-]7 Fractals in Melanesian Music - 156[-]8 'Singing Spirits And The Dancing Dead' - 170[-]9 Breaking the Tikol? - 194[-]10 Fijian Sigidrigi and the Performance of Social Hierarchies - 206[-]11 Tau'a'alo: Paddling Songs as Cultural Metaphor - 224[-]12 Disconnected Connections - 242[-]13 Performing Austronesia in the Twenty-first Century - 262[-]14 'To Sing is to be Happy' - 278[-]15 Australian Indigenous Choices of Repertoire in Community CDs/DVDs - 296[-]Contributors - 320[-]Index - 324