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Asian Studies

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Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By Pavitra Sundar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 1

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 3

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 2

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

China and the West

Music, Representation, and Reception

Edited by Michael Saffle & Hon-Lun Yang
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Asian Studies, China

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume exploring the phenomenon of the “Westernization” of contemporary Chinese music 

Jazz Journeys to Japan

The Heart Within

By William Minor
Subjects: Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

One author's personal odyssey through the jazz scene in Japan

Theater as Music

The Bunraku Play “Mt. Imo and Mt. Se

By C. Gerstle, C. Andrew Gerstle, Kiyoshi Inobe, and William Malm
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Music Theory, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines Bunraku in performance and brings together musical, dramatic, and historical analyses into one study

A Song for One or Two

Music and the Concept of Art in Early China

By Kenneth DeWoskin
Subjects: Philosophy, Music, Musicology, Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Formulates a general and tentative definition of aesthetics in China from early discussions of music [6]

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