The Garland handbook of Southeast Asian music

The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Musicnbsp;is comprised ofnbsp;essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area.

Partnbsp;one provides an in-depth introduction to the area of Southeast Asia and explores a series of issues and processes, such as colonialism, mass media, spirituality, and war. The articles in this section are important in gaining historical, political, and social perspective. Partnbsp;two focuses on mainland Southeast Asia, with essays representing Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the minority peoples of mainland Southeast Asia. Partnbsp;three focuses on island Southeast Asia, dividing the area into three sections: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Borneo. In addition to offering a detailed study of the music of each area, it also offers recent perspectives on the gamelan and theater traditions of Indonesia. Questions for Critical Thinking at the end of each major section guide and focus attention on what issues - musical and cultural - arise when one studies the music of Southeast Asia - issues that might not occur in the study of other musics of the world. An accompanying compact disc offers musical examples from Southeast Asia.

Part I. Issues and Processes in Southeast Asian Musics -- Introduction to Southeast Asia as a Musical Area -- Southeast Asian Musics : An Overview / Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams -- Southeast Asia in Prehistory / Karl L. Hutterer -- Waves of Cultural Influence / Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams -- Culture, Politics, and War / Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams -- The Impact of Modernization on Traditional Musics / Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams -- Questions for Critical Thinking : Issues and Processes in Southeast Asian Musics -- Part II. Mainland Southeast Asia -- Introduction to the Musics of Mainland Southeast Asia / Terry E. Miller -- The Khmer People of Cambodia / Sam-Ang Sam -- Thailand / Terry E. Miller -- Laos / Terry E. Miller -- Burma / Ward Keeler -- Peninsular Malaysia / Patricia Matusky and James Chopyak -- Vietnam / Phong T. Nguyen -- Singapore / Lee Tong Soon -- Upland and Minority Peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia : An Introduction / Terry E. Miller -- Minority Musics of Vietnam / Phong T. Nguyen -- Music of Upland Minorities in Burma, Laos, and Thailand / Ruriko Uchida and Amy Catlin -- The Indigenous Peoples (Orang Asli) of the Malay Peninsula / Marina Roseman, partly based on a manuscript by Hans Oesch -- The Lowland Cham / Phong T. Nguyen -- Questions for Critical Thinking: Mainland Southeast Asia -- Part III. Island Southeast Asia -- Island Southeast Asia : An Introduction / Patricia Matusky -- Indonesia / Margaret J. Kartomi [and others] -- Borneo : Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, Kalimantan / Patricia Matusky -- The Philippines / Corazon Canave-Dioquino, Ramon P. Santos, and Jose Maceda -- Questions for Critical Thinking : Island Southeast Asia.