Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. CHAPTER 1. Re-Vamping Asia: Women, Music, and Modernity in Comparative Perspective 1
4. PART I. Triumph and Tragedies of the Colonized Voice: Colonial Modernity, Commodification, and Circulation of Women’s Voices
5. CHAPTER 2. Acoustic Ladies: Mediating Audiovisual Modernity in Early German and Chinese Talkies 43
6. CHAPTER 3. On Becoming Nora: Transforming the Voice and Place of the Sing-Song Girl through Zhou Xuan 65
7. CHAPTER 4. Malay Women Singers of Colonial Malaya: Voicing Alternative Gender Identity and Modernity 83
8. CHAPTER 5. The “Comfort Women” and the Voices of East Asian Modernity 107
9. PART II. Modern Stars and Modern Lives: Nation, Memory, and the Politics of Gender
10. CHAPTER 6. Diva Misora Hibari as Spectacle of Postwar Japan’s Modernity 127
11. CHAPTER 7. Titiek Puspa: Gendered Modernity in 1960s and 1970s Indonesian Popular Music 144
12. CHAPTER 8. The Remarkable Career of L. R. Eswari 174
13. PART III. Silenced Voices and Forbidden Modernities: Censorship, Morality, and National Identity
14. CHAPTER 9. Gendered and Censored Modernity: Two Female Singers and Their Music in South Korea 195
15. CHAPTER 10. Princess Siti and the Particularities of Post-Islamist Pop 211
16. CHAPTER 11. Googoosh’s Voice: An Iranian Icon in Silence and Song 234
17. PART IV. Body Politics and Discourses of Femininity: Image, Sexuality, and the Body
18. CHAPTER 12. Enacting Modernity through Voice, Body, and Gender: Filipina Singers from the Close of the Philippine-American War to the Onset of Martial Law (1913–1972) 261
19. CHAPTER 13. Beyond Black and Gray: Portraits and Scenes of Javanese Singer Waldjinah in Indonesian Popular Print Media 281
20. CHAPTER 14. Mainstreaming Dance Music and Articulating Femininity: South Korean Dance Divas in the 1980s 303
21. CHAPTER 15. The Ideal Idol: Making Music with Hatsune Miku, the “First Sound of the Future” 320
22. Contributors 349
23. Index 355