Hearing Southeast Asia : sounds of hierarchy and power in context
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Porath Nathan (1968-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-87-7694-261-8, 87-7694-261-9, 978-87-7694-262-5, 87-7694-262-7
- Sujets : Son -- Aspect politique -- Asie du Sud-Est, Son, Politique et gouvernement, Conditions sociales, Moeurs et coutumes, Southeast Asia -- Politics and government, Southeast Asia
- Comprend : The Ensoundments of Hierarchy and Power in Southeast Asia, Music and the Cline of Malayness: Sounds of Egalitarianism and Ranking, Sounds in the Water World of the Orang Suku Laut in the Riau Islands of Indonesia, Embodied Knowledge, Numinous Power and Comedic Sounds in the Healing Aesthetics of the Orang Sakai of Riau, Contrasting Acoustical Signatures and the Power in Ritual: Nuaulu Spirit Healing in the Moluccan Islands, Revaluating Birdsong in a Contested Environment: Dayak Activists and Acoustic Ecology in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Sound Wars: Piety, Civility, and the Battle for Indonesian Ears, Resounding Power: Balinese Perspectives on the Gong Agung, Sound Authority in Myanmar, Healing sounds in Rakhine (Myanmar): Auspicious and Apotropaic Recitations in a Theravada Buddhist Context, Sonic Piety: The Aural Environment of Roman Catholic Passion Rituals in the Philippines, How Does Thailand Sound?
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXV-384 p.), : Ill., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : Danemark
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 69,
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Bibliogr. en fin de contribution. Index
Résumé
Le début de l'introduction indique : 'There is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds. The human body is a sound-making organism. In densely peopled areas like many parts of Southeast Asia, then, the potential is for tumult, an infinity of different sounds competing to be heard. Pandemonium is not unheard of in Southeast Asia - not least in times of political unrest - but in everyday situations uproar is uncommon; cultural, social, political and personal factors (among others) work to calm, channel or even silence the tumult. Providing focus to this interdisciplinary volume on sound in SE Asia are detailed descriptions of the context of sounds and sound-making within the region's diverse socio-cultural semiotic frames of hierarchy and power. Drawing on examples from Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, each author discusses some aspect of sound in relation to their ethnographic context. Sound examples are also found on a companion website. Varied approaches to understanding sound are offered but in some way each relates to hierarchy and power. All show the importance of sound for understanding the processual implementation of hierarchy (or its opposite) in the construction of the social environment and the role of sound in the efficacious.'