The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of
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.
Part 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. Part 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.
Part 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.
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