Instrumental Lives

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

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2024 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04592-9 (ISBN)

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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 reflect three angles of inquiry. The first section explores the characteristics and social roles of various categories of instruments, including the koto and an extinct Balinese wooden clapper. In section two, essayists focus on the life stories of individual instruments ranging from an heirloom Chinese qin to end-blown flutes in rural western Mongolia. Essays in the third section examine the ethics and other issues that surround instrument collections, but also show how collecting is a dynamic process that transforms an instrument’s habitat and social roles. Original and expert, Instrumental Lives brings a new understanding of how musical instruments interact with their environments and societies. Contributors: Supeena Insee Adler, Marie-Pierre Lissoir, Terauchi Naoko, Jennifer C. Post, Helen Rees, Xiao Mei, Tyler Yamin, and Bell Yung

Helen Rees is a professor of ethnomusicology and the director of the World Music Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China.

Foreword Xiao Mei

Introduction Helen Rees

Part I. Instrument Categories

The Aesthetics of Koto Strings: Materiality and Physical Sensation in Performance Terauchi Naoko
The CÅlÅpitÅ Past the “Dull Edge” of Extinction: A Shaggy Dog Story of Repatriation and Refusal in Bali Tyler Yamin

Part II. Individual Instruments

Pines in Ten Thousand Valleys: The Life Journey of a Musical Instrument (b.1640) Bell Yung
Making and Growing End-blown Flutes in the Mongolian Steppes Jennifer C. Post

Part III. Instrument Collections

Stories of Musicians, Curators, and “Bamboo Sticks”: The Making of a Musical Instrument Exhibition in Laos Maire-Pierre Lissoir
Family Heirlooms as Social Objects: The Thai Musical Instruments at UCLA Supeena Insee Adler
Asian Instruments and the Founding of the UCLA Collection Helen Rees

Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.09.2024
Co-Autor	Terauchi Naoko, Tyler Yamin, Bell Yung
Einführung	Helen Rees
Zusatzinfo	62 black & white photographs, 2 maps, 6 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-252-04592-0 / 0252045920
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04592-9 / 9780252045929
Zustand	Neuware