scholarly journals Popular Music in Southeast Asia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Barendregt ◽  
Peter Keppy ◽  
Henk Schulte Nordholt
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Hybrid Forms

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life and the societal changes that came with it. Reaching new audiences across national borders, popular music of the period helped push social change, and at times served as a medium for expressions of social or political discontent.

scholarly journals A Review of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit.

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Julianne Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Action ◽  
History Of

Rebecca Solnit's book makes the case for hope as a commitment to social action in an uncertain world. The author draws from her own history of activism and her study of environmental, political and cultural history, to shine a light on long forgotten transformative victories. Solnit argues that we are living in a time of exciting, unprecedented social change.

scholarly journals Religio-cultural heritage of libation, memory and Obang cultural history, Northwest Cameroon

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix K. Esoh ◽  
Chammah J. Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Resilience ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northwest Region

This article argues that libation, often associated with the ancestors, artefacts, images and pre-Christian religious devotions, constitutes sources for articulating authentic African cultural history of Obang community in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. It highlights that among traditional memory carriers, the ritual of libation remains trust worthy and pervasive, even among communities challenged by globalisation and colonising effects of Christianity. The article demonstrates the immense potentials of libation as an epitome and stabiliser of cultural memory, and a maxim in cultural resilience in contemporary Africa. Thus, the article calls for revisiting this ancient ritual to expose its potentials as a veritable memory repertoire in cultural–historical studies, especially at a time when social change and modernism continue to challenge the memories of traditional societies.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1971 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-416
Author(s):  
P.J. Worsley ◽  
Ktut Ginarsa ◽  
Th. J. Gerold-Scheepers ◽  
M.A. Jaspan ◽  
Renato Rosaldo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Theory

- P.J. Worsley, Ktut Ginarsa, Prasasti Baru Ragajaya 6 April 1155. Direktorat Bahasa dan Kesusastraan, Direktorat Djendral Kebudajaan, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudajaan, Tjabang Singaradja, 1968. XVI, 54 p., 3 maps. - Th. J. Gerold-Scheepers, M.A. Jaspan, Traditional medical theory in Southeast Asia. An inaugural lecture, University of Hull, Hull 1969. 36 pag. - Renato Rosaldo, Don V. Hart, Bisayan Filipino and Malayan Humoral Pathologies: Folk medicine and ethnohistory in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, New York; Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. Data Paper: No. 76. 96 p. - Pierre J. Simon, W.E. Willmott, The political structure of the Chinese community in Cambodia. L.S.E. Monographs nr. 42. The Athlone Press, London 1970. 211 p. - Vivien van Geen, Owen M. Lynch, The politics of untouchability (Social mobility and social change in a city of India). Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1969. XIV-251 pp. - W.F.L. Buschkens, Silvia W. de Groot, Djuka society and social change: History of an attempt to develop a bush negro community in Surinam 1917-1926. Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V. - Doctor H.J. Prakke & H.M.G. Prakke, Assen 1969. XVI + 256 p., met twee kaarten, 12 fotografieën en een bibliografie van Willem Frederik van Lier. - W.F.L. Buschkens, A. Polak-Eltz, Afro-Amerikaanse godsdiensten en culten. J.J. Romen & Zonen, Roermond 1970. 221 blz., 30 ills.

Queer Encounters in the Music of Billy Strayhorn

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 771-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Barg
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Relationships

AbstractThis article addresses issues of queer identity, aesthetics, and history in jazz through a focus on two midcentury works composed and/or arranged by Billy Strayhorn: a set of four pieces written in 1953 for an Off-Broadway production of Federico García-Lorca's The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in Their Garden (Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín); and several movements from the Strayhorn-Ellington adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite (1960). My study considers how the two works engage artistic figures, themes, topics, and aesthetic practices that have strong queer historical affiliations. These include failed or impossible love, masking, stylized exotica, and other liminal spheres of identificatory ambiguity and reversal. Taken together, these works enable a positioning of Strayhorn within modernist queer cultural history and, more specifically, within the history of African American gay cultural production. At the same time, through showing how queerness inhabits jazz's past, my analyses of Strayhorn's queer musical encounters provide a critical vantage point from which to examine historical and cultural understandings of jazz at midcentury and, more broadly, the complex relationships between social identities (race, sexuality, gender) and composition, arrangement, and collaboration in twentieth-century music.

Diversification and Cultural Construction of a Crop

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorian Q. Fuller ◽  
Cristina Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Genetic Selection ◽  
Genetic Mutation ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Crop Varieties ◽  
Culture History ◽  
East And Southeast Asia ◽  
History Of

Rice (Oryza) is one of the world’s most important and productive staple foods, with highly diverse uses and varieties. We use archaeobotany, culture, history, and ethnobotany to trace the history of the development of sticky (or glutinous) forms. True sticky rice is the result of a genetic mutation that causes a loss of amylose starch but higher amylopectin content. These mutations are unknown in wild populations but have become important amongst cultivars in East and Southeast Asia (unlike other regions). In the same region, other cereals have also evolved parallel mutations that confer stickiness when cooked. This points to a strong role for cultural history and food preparation traditions in the genetic selection and breeding of Asian cereal varieties. The importance of sticky rice in ritual foods and alcoholic beverages in East and Southeast Asia also suggests the entanglement of crop varieties and culturally inherited food traditions and ritual symbolism.

Philology in Viet Nam and its Impact on Southeast Asian Cultural History

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD G. THOMAS
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
French Empire ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Intellectual Movements ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

The current paper is part of an interdisciplinary project focusing on the intellectual dimensions of the French colonial experience in colonial Viet Nam, particularly in relation to the archaeology of Southeast Asia. As such, the work presented here is intended as a follow-up to the recently published exploration of intellectual movements under colonialism in French-ruled Viet Nam produced by Susan Bayly. Its wider aim is to contextualise the work of the Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient in order to better understand why its product, the cultural history of Viet Nam, is now so far out of step with the rest of mainland Southeast Asia that despite more than thirty years of post-colonial fieldwork by Vietnamese scholars, and more than fifteen years of collaboration with Western institutions, our understanding of Vietnamese protohistory has advanced little since, in a now famous review of the then current state of Vietnamese archaeology, Jeremy Davidson opined that ‘our knowledge of Champa remains so fragmentary, vague and inaccurate that the whole subject must be reworked’. The current work has many points of concordance with Bayly's interdisciplinary study. Here too it is argued that the distinctive understandings of race, culture and polity brought to the colony by French scientists, profoundly affected the thought and actions of Vietnamese as well as Europeans, and that the effects of their work were felt both within and beyond the French empire.

scholarly journals Social Change in Eleventh-Century Armenia

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-219
Author(s):  
Tim Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Monastic Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Byzantine Church

Although the Byzantine annexation of Armenian territories in the later tenth and eleventh centuries has been studied from a number of perspectives, little attention has been paid to the subsequent history of those districts, and in particular the circumstances and the responses of the communities who stayed put. This chapter explores the social and cultural history of the district of Tarōn in the century after its incorporation as a theme. Through comparison with the annexation of Vaspurakan in 1021, it argues that both the lay and clerical elite left Tarōn in 966. This affected land tenure in several ways, including the creation of stratiotika ktemata and the imposition of the demosion. Evidence from an Armenian Gospels manuscript indicates that the land tax was still being collected—and the registers updated—as late as 1067. A new network of episcopal sees was established across the former Armenian see of Tarōn. Finally the History of Tarōn, a composition completed in the 980s, shows how one monastic community took advantage of the recent turmoil to promote its claim to foundation and endowment by St Grigor the Illuminator at the start of the fourth century. It also forged multiple links between the activities of St Grigor and the metropolitan see of Caesarea, associating the conversion of Tarōn, and by implication of Armenia, with the Byzantine Church.

Archives and Social Change in Italy, c.900–1100

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marios Costambeys
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social History ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Societal Changes

Chris Wickham’s chapter on ‘Land disputes and their social framework in Lombard- Carolingian Italy’ set the tone for a generation of scholarship, revealing, like other chapters in the same book, the utility of dispute records for writing the social history of early medieval Europe. Societal changes are nowhere more obvious than in the disputes to which they give rise. It is no accident, therefore, that documents generated by law courts have been central to historiography concerned with the nature and sharpness of social change in the post-Carolingian West, to which Chris has also contributed significantly. Increasingly after c.800, however, Italian law court records look to become less useful as social documents because they come to follow a very limited number of formulaic templates, which erased any points in dispute and cast claims in court as undefended. This chapter argues that social changes can still be detected in such documents, though less through their texts than through their patterns of preservation. It shows how in two cases—the abbey of Monte Amiata and the ecclesiastical institutions in Piacenza—the shape of archives of law court documents mirrors and is related to the crystallization of local power into the hands of restricted elite groups focused on single families. In doing so it addresses the current debate, arising largely out of French examples, about the appearance and reality of a ‘transformation’ in Western society around the year 1000.

Early Southeast Asia: Old Wine in New Skins?—A Review Article

1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl L. Hutterer
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Art History ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Common Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Individual Contributions

Early Southeast Asia is an impressive collection of papers dealing with the archaeology, history, epigraphy, art history, and geography of early Southeast Asian states and their development. The high scholarship of individual contributions notwithstanding, the collection as a whole demonstrates that the past thirty years have seen relatively little progress in understanding this important aspect of the social and cultural history of the region. Archaeologists have made many important new discoveries but have been unable to bring them to bear within a historical synthesis; related disciplines have dealt with other types of evidence but also seem unable to translate them into a common language of cultural and social meaning.

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